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Peephole Displays
benh57 writes "A student at Berkeley has come up with a novel approach for navigating small handheld displays. In effect the display is a "peephole" into a much larger information area. You see different parts of the display by moving the handheld around - no more tiny scrollbars. Check out the DiVX movies to see it in action. It even works in 3D!"
Being that it's similar to looking through a small hole to see a large interior I think they should call it The Speculum
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I''ve been using a similar style for years. I can't even play a game without moving the controller wildly about while playing a game.
There's no convincing me that moving the controller to the right doesn't help the car turn faster in GT3. Or that shaking it up and down while holding the X button so hard my fingers change colors doesn't help it with acceleration on the straight away.
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MY peers would get out of jury duty.
After I get all excited doing this, where can I ... ahem ... insert myself?
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... will you see what you're typing on your projected keyboard?
I can't get a peep out of their server...
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... the porn industry leads the way in video display technologies!
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
"...touch sensitive sides...stroke the side...I enjoy the peephole"
They say that porn drives technological innovation in information distribution technologies. This gives a whole new meaning to the term "peep show".
I can't imagine I'm going to get first post on this.
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For your reading convenience, allow me to summarize all the posts that will appear in this article:
1. Wow, this is really cool/neat/excellent/unique! This kid is a credit to geeks/nerds/hackers/allofus for coming up with this! Wouldn't it be really cool if you could XXXXXXXXXXX, and get it to do YYYYYYYYYYY?
2. God, Slashdotted already. I know this has been said before, but Slashdot really ought to take some responsibility for the stories they post. Perhaps some form of cache/prior warning system/mirror to make sure the page is available, and the site owners don't get stuck with dead servers/massive bandwidth bills?
3. WTF? Is this what passes for news nowadays on Slashdot? Come on, this is total vaporware until I have a finished product in my hands! I can't believe crap like this gets posted, and my article about CompanyX abuses/government concerns/link that has been beaten to death on 100 other blogs/great new vaporware technology is totally ignored by the editors.
4. Oh great. Now all this kid has to look forward to is being bought out by Palm/Microsoft/Apple/Microsoft again and having his idea exploited for millions of dollars while he gets next to nothing. Or better yet, wait until Xerox/Microsoft/Apple/HP/Microsoft again decides they want to get this technology for nothing, and sues him for patent infringement somehow! Those bastard corporations don't care about anything but their bottom lines/profits/iron grip on their marketplaces/bullying the little guy after all!
4. This article is a joke. Therefore I will make this joke post/troll/blatant flame in an attempt to gain cheap karma/make lame humor attempt/piss off everyone.
It hurts when I pee.
And imagine the enormous positive economical impact that would have made by creating wealth, jobs and further R&D.
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et violá : virtual reality
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Imagine a subway train full of people gyrating with their PDAs. It will look like a bunch of DDR freaks on mescalin.
...nothing I didn't see on the E train this morning...
So we're going to be viewing everything on roll-up monitors that we have to shake around to find things on, all while tapping incessantly on a projection keyboard. Sounds like we're all going to be jerking around like idiots.
I think I'll wait.
How can I come to work drunk anymore? I just perfected driving here, now I have to retrain on my PDA? Jeeze, sometimes technology is a bad thing.
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
This reminds me somewhat of the ACME(tm) Portable Hole favoured by Wile E. Coyote; the kind where you stick it to a wall and where the hole leads you to depends where on the wall the hole is stuck to.
Now if I stick my PDA to the wall, does it mean that passing Roadrunners will be able to Meep Meep their way through the screen, and I'll just splat comically against it on my way through?
Don't get me wrong, this is an interesting concept, but execution would be difficult to use in the real world. Someone already suggested the difficulties of using it on a bus - this would certainly cause real problems. Plus the fact that it would need gyros would increase the cost.
Projecting keyboards would be the ideal solution for palmtoppers on the move, IMHO.
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And you could use GPS to detect precision.
Then you could use a very fast wireless link to connect to a collection of high resolution earth images.
So, if you held the device in front of you and looked at it, you could see exactly what you'd see if your hand was empty.
PHBs should be able to buy this "empty-hand" device for $2500.00 in two years; the rest of will get it for $99.99 at Wal-Mart in five.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
They could require the use of an earbud headphone. And the POV could be relative to the headphone. Then you could put a button on the PDA that recenters the display if things get out of whack. Seems like that would perfectly deal with the jitter issue. Like you say, you'd need fast updates on the screen.
Of course, I don't want a PDA until they can draw on my iris with lasers. I want a 50" display that fits in the palm of my hand, and can be used to permanently blind my enemy in tactical combat.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
..I wanted to add some data into my PDA's spreadsheet, but my arms weren't long enough to reach ZZ-999 :-(
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You posted a reply to a comment and thought you might get first post? Your low user id betrays you!
Uhm, "first post on this" meaning the first post discussing the parents peephole affinity.
The bus left. Everyone was on it. Except you.
from the original post...
Imagine a bus rounding a corner and the text compensating by scrolling.
I imagine what happened here was that the bus left, gvonk was on it, but the text scrolled past and he missed the key words.
A gyro? Who ever heard of putting lamb meat and a pita inside of a PDA?
With a gyroscope/accelerometer arrangement to detect movement, you could set it up so that you clear the screen by turning it over and shaking it.
Does your head bounce more or less than your hand? (If they're in sync already, then you're fine.)
Typically, if my hand is bouncing, my head is steady so my eyes can focus on....
Oh, nevermind....
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