[Talk] Interesting user interface

[Nick Simicich]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 17:17, Adam Glass wrote:
> This is a video clip recorded from last February's TED (Technology,
> Entertainment & Design) conference.  Very interesting...
> 
> http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=j_han&flashEnabled=1

15 years ago, I attended a talk where someone described "the future of
human interface".  In it, they described something that was surprisingly
like the interface that was presented with the photos as extended to
documents - including the ghost keyboard.  The only major thing that
they had in the SF story that this guy read a passage out of during that
talk was a printer integrated into the edge of the desk - if the person
needed a hardcopy, say for legal reasons, they could just drag it to the
edge of the desk, and it would print as the image was pushed off of the
desk.

The reality is that this won't be part of the $100 laptop, it will be
two generations into the future.  I would have liked to hear why he
thought this was suddenly so affordable - and it would have been nice
for the keyboard to break in two, one piece for each hand.


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