The Linja Zax concept is a method for zooming and moving within a 3-dimensional space along the Z-axle on touch screen devices. It is characterized by zooming/moving that is controlled by rotating a stylus or finger around zooming/moving target point on the screen. The zoom/move is activated by panning the view with the stylus/finger in a circular motion. Rotating clockwise indicates zooming in, rotating counter clockwise indicates zooming out.

For a more detailed look into Linja Zax, please visit the Linja Zax website.

A video demo of how Linja Zax works can be found on LinjaDesign's Youtube Page.

We at Linja Design have released an innovative, faster-to-use S60 calculator.

From the website: "The Linja Series 60 calculator was designed and developed by those at Linja Design alongside their technology partners, BJIT Group.

With a clean and easy to use interface, the Linja S60 calculator can prove to be a better solution when calculating simple equations on your mobile phone. Instead of clicking multiple times to get to a basic math function such as with the default Nokia S60 calculator, the addition, divide, multiply and subtract functions are dedicated onto the up, down, left and right areas of the rocker key. Thus, making calculations quicker and easier to do."

Download your copy for free at http://www.linjadesign.fi/s60calc/

Linja Design's innovation of the month is a noteworthy project, the reacTable.

It´s a state-of-the-art multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical artefacts on the table surface and constructing different audio topologies in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.

The instrument was developed by a team of digital luthiers under the direction of Dr. Sergi Jordà. The "Interactive Sonic Systems" team is working in the Music Technology Group within the Audiovisual Institute at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona Spain. Its main activities concentrate on the design of new musical interfaces, such as tangible music instruments and musical applications for mobile devices.

The reactable intends to be:
- collaborative: several performers (locally or remotely)
- intuitive: zero manual, zero instructions
- sonically challenging and interesting
- learnable and masterable (even for children)
- suitable for novices (installations) and advanced electronic musicians (concerts)

The reacTable's hardware is based on a translucent round table. A video camera situated beneath, continuously analyzes the table surface, tracking the nature, position and orientation of the objects that are distributed on its surface, representing the components of a classic modular synthesizer.

More information can be found at the reacTable's official site: http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable

Videos of the reacTable in action can be found on YouTube.

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