But... if you don't have a keyboard how are you going to write stuff? And if there is an alternate way it's probably a lot slower than a keyboard.
But... if you don't have a keyboard how are you going to write stuff? And if there is an alternate way it's probably a lot slower than a keyboard.
Meh I don't foresee this replacing home PC's anytime soon, if ever at that current state. For the more hard core PC users like some of us here, can you just imagine staring down at a table all day, it'd be murder on the neck. I already have back and neck problems with standard PC usage too long, just imagine gaming on a table or what not.
Case in point being, I don't see this as more then a novelty thing that will do well in businesses and such, and in homes where computers are rarely used. But with those of us that play games and nearly live our life on it, unless they do some drastic changes to the interface to make it easier to use for long periods of time and for the more intensive usage (i.e. gaming) I don't foresee it being that much of a leap but rather a step back.
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They're obviously not going to spend the next 10 to 50 years trying to convince people to do all their work at a horizontal tabletop. That's just their way of showcasing the new technology and marketing it, by giving it a commercial use that'll get it bought by wealthy companies, and seen by the public. It goes without saying that any 'home PC replacement' type thing will be in a more user-friendly format.
As for keyboard functionality... it'd be exceedingly simple for the screen itself to function as a keyboard - you could bring up a fully-customisable keypad along one part of the screen, using the whole thing for word-processing or whatever, as well as any number of other concurrent functions.
A logical home-friendly version of this technology would be something akin to the computer terminals in the more recent Star Trek shows - a series of flat panels at different appropriate angles, that can each serve as a keypad, graphic display, library interface, or whatever's needed at any given moment.
I agree with Big D. Think of the kind of terminal Data sits at in TNG - we're more likely to see that than a coffee table we're expected to hunch over for 15 hours a day.
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Also, the only reason you may think using mouse and keyboard is easier is because you're so used to doing it. To somebody who's never used a computer before, this is so much easier.
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Now don't get me wrong I think the thing is good for businesses and the like, but when it comes to gaming it will fail, I just don't see mouses/keyboards/controllers being out done by a touch screen in that sense anytime soon. Not to mention they require less effort to use then having to touch everywhere on the screen. For some things it's better, but for a lot I think it just can't win out unless they find some sort of way around it.
That and my whole argument was out of hearing so many others (and in the broadcast too) make it sound as if a table will replace all PC's as we know it within 5 years, which honestly I doubt we'll see that technology in the home on such a level as many think for at least a good decade if not more.
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It's a nice new, and elegant format to computers, but it's not really an advancement in technology. Rather, it shows how currently existing technology can be used. Or, at least that's how I see it. But while this new type of computer it cool and everything, what can it do that my regular PC can't? I'm used to the Mouse Keyboard format, and just because this is a new format doesn't mean I should feel obliged to use it. I've been more impressed by Cern's new internet and the Depth Camera, personally. This seems like just a more elegant alternative to using a regular PC.
Of course, just like PC's, this will probably be a very versatile device, with the ability to install various programs to it. I wouldn't be surprised if it had some kind of ability to connect to various monitors, too. As we can see here, it can play multiple videos at once. But what if it could play various different videos at once, and have each of these different videos play to different monitors? Though a PC probably could do this, that kind of a program seems more in the realm of this centerpiece PC.
Also, something I'd like to throw in is that RTS games would probably be awesome when using this thing.
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I think this will be great fun. I don't think there's any chance it will immediately replace keyboards and the like (many people, myself included, find typing at least as quick as writing) but I see this as a good thing. It's a lovely piece of technology.
It is pretty cool. While I certainly agree that it's pretty easy to simply use a keyboard and a mouse as things are, I have to say that it's a pretty cool development. I can see something like that being popular within business, but only on a very limited scale within the home market.
Not my words Carol, the words of Top Gear magazine.
Big D is looking at the reasonable future of this technology. The possibilities to be found will be superior to what we use now.
And it can run lots of porn at once.
The biggest issue I see (granted, not very big) is that your fingers block your sight xD
Pretty cool, but they don't seem to be doing much computing with it.
And if your making graphics and you want to change individual pixels at a time with minimal zooming in, cumbersome human fingers arent really the best choice.Originally Posted by Rubah Lapah
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That's not what it's for.
No reason you couldn't use a stylus, anyway. Like a tablet.
For high-detail stuff, it'd be pretty easy to use an animated sliding scale or plus/minus buttons like on today's image editing software. The 'do it with your fingers' thing would just be handy for non-computer-savvy people, and it just made for an interesting demo in their video, since it totally bypassed any buttons, icons, or other familiar notions that we've already got.And if your making graphics and you want to change individual pixels at a time with minimal zooming in, cumbersome human fingers arent really the best choice.
Seriously, I'm perplexed by the number of people who seem to think that the hardware and software of this new device will, and always will, be limited only to the form and function shown in the video. Sure, there's no mouse - but it'd be dead easy for game software to turn a space on the edge of the screen into a mouse-like pad, a number pad, a keyboard, or any other interface whatsoever.
Call me old-fashioned, but I'd much rather use a mouse and keyboard. I have this thing about touching screens-- I don't like to because then they get fingerprints on them (unless I'd be using a stylus of course), and I'm obsessive about cleaning fingerprints and stuff off of screens. It would be more of a hindrance than a novelty to me.
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