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Tablet PC Rorschach Inkblot Test
LPH writes "ESC Technologies just put up a funny series of images that they ran through the Tablet PC recognition software." Perhaps these tablets need a "doodle" setting.
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maybe they're running their websever on one of those tablets...
Incidentally, they had a demo at my school (University of Michigan) last month, and I must say that the detail captured by the touchscreen is pretty amazing. Gabe from Penny-Arcade has been using it instead of a sketchbook, and the picture speaks for itself. Now, whether it's worth $2300 is a different story.
IMHO, this is yet another technology that could be very cool and convienant, and all it needs a killer app and a critical mass in the marketplace, but it doesn't look likely
Almost seems like a computer's version of hieroglyphics, but could conceivably also be used for hidden messages. Even a sheet of what could be considered as otherwise harmless doodles could be converted with this software into coherant communiques.
It's official, Microsoft supports terrorism! (muah-ha-ha)
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
"The MS TabletPC is obviously just another way to sell the MS Windows OS since it really doesn't solve any problems that were not already solved by cheaper tools."
/.er obviously has no experience in. Why don't you try the Tablet PC before you bad mouth it and Microsoft. It works well, very well. Much better than your PalmOS alternatives do, with their large laptop size screens, improved handwriting recognition, searchable memos that are still handwritten by you, plus they pack the whole power of a laptop and throw in all of the above at the same price as a regular mini form factor laptop.
Or how about the parent post is obviously just another way to bash Microsoft on a topic that a
Wait, what am I saying?? Blearhg, it's just Micro$haft up to it's old ways, trying to screw us over and make us BUY things!
The handwriting recognition on the Tablet PC is better than the kinds of hacks that the Palm, Newton, and many other "commercial" systems have used before, but the technology isn't particularly new.
Much of what it does is by using a lot of dictionary constraints. Try writing some nonsense words, and you'll see that it will turn them into whatever word seems most similar.
As far as "it needs a doodle setting", the apps that I used saved things as digital ink by default,
Applications like Word, Excel, etc. running on Tablet PC don't use digital ink by default, and the integration of ink into those applications is pretty lousy in my opinion. That's particularly ironic given how much Microsoft has bragged about the supposedly good job they have been doing on integrating ink into applications.