mouse is still the fastest.. im all about the mouse and keyboard
mouse is still the fastest.. im all about the mouse and keyboard
Honestly, it's like they've never, ever seen new technology before.Originally Posted by Big D
1) A keyboard image would be less effective, if only because when you actually have a keyboard, you can feel the keys, however on this you probably can't.
2) Is it just me, or does this seem like a DS touchpad that can read multiple things touching at once, and with a Scanner underneath it?
3) I'm looking forward to further advances in this. Though as shown, there isn't much practical use outside of business yet.
Yeah, multi-touch screens are fairly awesome. There's a lot of other companies that are developing it a lot further than Microsoft.
"... and so I close, realizing that perhaps the ending has not yet been written."
you want amazing technology.. There are machines in my building that can rearrange atoms to spell out your name. It is so small(10^-10 m) that the sample on which it would be on, cant be seen without a powerful optical microscope.
Hopefully you don't mind rubber gloves.
It's the freaking Phantom Zone
...Geddit?
I've seen that when it was in beta. Good to know that it will be implemented.
The future is now!
What seems to be unclear to many is that it isn't a finished product not to be further developed. What's interesting is the combination of technologies it puts to use in a single surface—touch, display, communication with external devices, credit cards and such, and potential to do much more.
It doesn't have to be a table, it could just as well be a picture on the wall, your mouse pad or an ATM. Even if it is a table, you don't have to use it as your primary screen for gaming or otherwise: why not hook it up to the TV and use the surface for controllers and more (think DS with much greater possibilities), and if you want to use a mouse, just lay one on the table and get playing.
The touch screen can likely be made to be fingerprint-resistant, self-cleaning or whatever. Again, the product is not necessarily finished.
Personally, I think it's a good step in the right direction, presuming we do want computers more integrated into our homes. The next step I'm hoping they'll take, purely innovatively, is making elevation of the surface possible. If we really want to keep our old qwerty keyboards (they aren't very effective from an interaction design standpoint, so I'd prefer them inventing better solutions, but that's another story), but integrate them into this surface, we need haptic feedback—such as the key being pushed down and back up again—for our key presses. This would of course applicable to any button, and other things as well.
tl;dr?
I think they need a cat option for when (and you know it will happen) a cat jumps on it and lays down.
haha that's so true about cats.
A touch keyboard on this system would be infinitely better than any system. You could theoretically move keys wherever you want. Don't like qwerty? Dvorak to your liking? You can move keys around to anywhere. After all, it's just an input software, so it should be customisable.
Perfect.
c'mon peegies, give colemac some love. You can do that anyways with your current keyboards if you don't look at the letters and get confused
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