[Talk] Interesting user interface

[Nick Simicich]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 22:34, Nick Simicich wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 17:17, Adam Glass wrote:

The one other thing you could do with the SF interface was to scan a
paper by putting it face down on the desk and running your hand across
it - the standard at the time was that, while a lot of paper changed
hands, none was retained, only images were retained.  You got a piece of
mail you wanted to file, you scanned it and shredded it.  Later, if you
needed a copy, you dragged it off the desk.  You would need
authentication in today's world, else people could assert alteration.

> > 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.
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > --Adam
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