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Touchscreen Interface For Real World Items

This would be a great tool for research and planning. Most information we deal with is either not available online or, easily accessible online. It looks to be a great tool for helping humans do what they do best, making new associations and manipulating information.
 
I'm glad they are at least realistic about it "we'll see how it works"... but haven't we been trying this for many many years now? Have we really found a benefit, or is it still just "cool tech" with little practical use? Of course I've no issue with folks trying, but for most applications it still seems a long ways away from replacing a keyboard and mouse.
 
Youn said:
I'm glad they are at least realistic about it "we'll see how it works"... but haven't we been trying this for many many years now? Have we really found a benefit, or is it still just "cool tech" with little practical use? Of course I've no issue with folks trying, but for most applications it still seems a long ways away from replacing a keyboard and mouse.
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There's a difference between useful practical tools and commercially successful ones. Look at all the odd non intuitive interfaces we've accepted because that's the way a large phone or content provider does it. If Google/Apple/Android/FaceBook created a hammer it'd weigh 40 pounds, be able to change colors and, link to every other hammer on the planet but, it wouldn't be a better hammer.
 
yes, of course it may be successful for things like kiosks or other more commercial applications, and I understand experimenting is important and can lead to more innovation. I guess these things still feel a bit ahead of their time, with the lag and chunkiness and all. Anyways, I wish them good luck, progress is good...
 
Youn said:
yes, of course it may be successful for things like kiosks or other more commercial applications, and I understand experimenting is important and can lead to more innovation. I guess these things still feel a bit ahead of their time, with the lag and chunkiness and all. Anyways, I wish them good luck, progress is good...
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What's faster, incorporating something that's on the desk in front of you with a slight lag or using the fastest desktop/laptop available to locate something on the web, copy it and, attach/link it to your current project? As for "chunkiness," I've never considered portability to be more important than utility. Unfortunately, if this was an app for a smartphone that was 3 times slower, had a dismal interface and, a comment "wall," there'd be excited 'youts' all over it.
 
I'd like one when the gui is windows compatible.

Not sure I want to have to keep my desk clear all the time. What happens if I have my (pet) rats on the desks?
 
Elf_Boy said:
I'd like one when the gui is windows compatible.

Not sure I want to have to keep my desk clear all the time. What happens if I have my (pet) rats on the desks?
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Did you see it disregard normal hand movements? Just set it to ignore rats. :D
 
Has touch AND gesture recognition, ignores ordinary hand movement, works on irregular surfaces. I'd say it's a nice step forward, improving on previous tech. Now to get high accuracy in a small package.
 
Seems like a great supplementary technology to me. I don't think this is meant to replace anything we are currently doing.

I think such tech could be extremely useful (and orders of magnitude more efficient/cheaper) in homes, offices, industries. Do we really need screens, keyboards or touch panels everywhere? Not really.
 
I might be tired, but I fail to see where this could be any kind of use. If I'm to invest in a display to show stuff to clients at a travel agency, it will be a tablet. If I'm to spend so much on tech, might as well eliminate paper altogether.
 
People might also forget that the projector needs to be pretty strong to compete with ambient light. Sure, white on black text and graphics work ok, but try this with a magazine with full color, it'll most likely be so washed out that it becomes unusable or frustrating.
 
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