DateLens, a unique calendar interface for PCs and Pocket PCs developed at the University of Maryland, is now available.

The DateLens application works with Outlook and ActiveSync using an animated fisheye representation of dates coupled with compact overviews and integrated search. The designers said the application allows users to view several months at once and to navigate through their calendar without getting lost.

Ben Bederson, who developed DateLens with his colleagues in University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory said "DateLens provides an interface that uses the same source code to execute on multiple devices -- such as Pocket PC, Tablet PC and the desktop. They have different processor types, different display resolutions and radically different interaction models."

The Pocket PC version of DateLens is being sold for $15 through Windsor Interfaces, a start up company created by Bederson and others at the university.