"Walking through the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria with your fly undone is different. But it's not good." ~Legendary GM design chief Bill Mitchell

Monday, February 13, 2006

Futureland

Are you familiar with all those sci-fi movies that show a person poking around at a table-top that is projecting all different kinds of information in a continuously changing environment?  I’m thinking of a scene from The Island.  Grabbing windows, and scaling images all by sliding a few fingertips across the screen.  Picking a window out of a group and then tossing it aside as if it was a real object.  Touchscreens have been around for a while, but they’ve always been very imprecise and limited in use.  Think that stupid ATM that’s always picking the wrong selection when you’re trying to get some money for lunch.  This Dual-Hand Touchscreen is only in the research stage right now, but if they develop it just a little further it will revolutionize how we interact with computers.  That’s a hell of a demonstration video.  I’ve got mine on pre-order.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah that thing rocks, I saved a copy of the video tos how people since the site started getting hammered when it first showed up.

3:39 PM

 

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