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'Cut and Paste' Is Out, 'Pick and Drop' Is In
Roland Piquepaille writes "How do you exchange a file with a colleague or a photograph with a family member? Chances are that you cut the desired element and paste it into your e-mail program to send it. Now, imagine yourself in a meeting, picking a file on your PDA with a digital pen and using the same pen to drop it on your friend's laptop screen. This is exactly what Jun Rekimoto and his team at Sony Interaction Laboratory have developed with their 'pick and drop' technique. BBC News looks at this project in Digital pen takes on mouse. Because it's based on cheap and existing components, such a system might be released in the near future, though Sony hasn't announced any plans to do it. You'll find more details and pictures in this overview."
I'm not going to give up on the usefulness of my Cue Cat just yet.
Unless you mean "picking and dropping" it out of a window.. yes.
I don't know about your friends but I've got some real winners who just keep forwarding until the original info is nested 40 layers deep. argh!
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
I've just confined its use to nasal maintenance. Sometimes an added roll step is required between the pick and drop steps. It sounds like these guys have just taken this concept and run with it.
This thing'll be used to drop porn on the board room's projector during a meeting, a'la Fight Club, or will be used to write nasty things about the presenter, who would probably be facing the audience rather than the screen...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Ah, for the days of sitting in Dad's lap, watching HeeHaw, admiring the cowgirls.
-Laz
1) No, it will be a propietary atrac thing which will take five hours to convert an rtf doc into a protected atrac file before 'conveniently' dropping into your colleague's laptop
2) of course they will, it will be in the next upgrade plugin distribution for media player, but nobody using any of ten public serials will be allowed to use it
3) Yes, all ps3 and psps will be bundled with one of these pense. And,
4) No.
I also reply below your current threshold.
That would be cool!
I still like "Xerox and throw". . .
Any young child will tell you that there is much prior art for "Pick and Drop", as well as "Pick and Flick" and "Pick and Smear All Over Daddy's Arm". It's well documented as the Sinus Nasal Outflow Technique.
What's sad about the above statement is it's not meant as humor.
That's ok, it wasn't funny anyway.
Will some slashdroid ask if it plays Ogg Vorbis?
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
Not only will MS support it, they'll attempt to patent it.
...then you would not have to worry about loosing the pen :-)
------- Code to try when you're bored: qsort( 0, UINT_MAX, sizeof( int* ), IntCompare );
(Pick It and Flick It)
So i want to send a file to a friend in say Canada:-
* Pick file up using pen
* Buy stamps and envelope
* Mail pen to friend
* fried puts on screen
What a fucked up system,
Don't touch me with that thing, its dirty!
Where have I heard that before?
Oh yeah: my first wife.
You can poke people in the eye with it! That will get the point across:-).
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.|< The named which can be named is not the true named
Voice control is only suitable for lonely people.
Right, we know. Did you forget which web site you were on?
-Ryan, with the unoriginal sig
Voice control may "sound" good, but imagine an office full of people talking at their machines"
Once I was on a long trip and I decided to make a stop at one of those rest areas on the side of the road. I go in the bathroom. The first stall was taken so I went into the second stall. I had just sat down when I heard a voice from the next stall...
"Hi there, how is it going?"
OK, I am not the type to strike conversations with strangers in bathrooms on the side of the road. I didn't know what to say, but I replied:
"Not bad I guess."
Then the voice says:
"So, what are you doing?"
I am starting to find this a bit weird, but I say:
"Well, I'm going back east to see some friends and just try to relax..."
Then I hear the person say:
"Look, I'm going to have to call you back. Every time I ask you a question, some idiot in the next stall keeps answering."