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A GUI For Books
NASA's Goddard Flight Center has just issued a contract to use Touch User Interface technology from a company called Somatic Digital. Their "TouchBooks" let printed material connect to digital devices via sensors in the covers. (C'mon, don't tell me you've never pressed on a URL on a printed page and expected something to happen.) This page on the vendor's site has videos of a 7-year-old using a TouchBook. Works with XP and OS X.
(C'mon, don't tell me you've never pressed on a URL on a printed page and expected something to happen.)
Ok, I won't tell you that I've never done it.
There is no mod option "-1: Disagree" for a reason. "Overrated" is not an acceptable substitute. Post something instead.
Back slowly away from the psychoactive drugs, these nice men want to have a little talk with you.
... and then they built the supercollider.
C'mon, don't tell me you've never pressed on a URL on a printed page and expected something to happen
What kind of dumbass approved that message?
tried clicking a link in a book...
one time in college after several days of no sleep and too much coding, I tried to click on a post-it note that was stuck to the top corner of my monitor.
And another time at work -- again after too little sleep -- I ctrl-c'd something on one computer, then walked into another room and tried to paste it onto that computer. Twice. Then I actually stopped to think about what I was doing.
C'mon, don't tell me you've never pressed on a URL on a printed page and expected something to happen.
No, but I do lick my fingertips before I click the "Next" button.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Recently, I did glance up at the top-right corner of a book to see what time it was. And was disappointed to see a page number instead.
No, but I have looked for an "UNDO" button when filling out paper forms...
Grammar -- F
Design -- D
Technical understanding -- F
Orthography -- D-
Yeah, that's gonna be a huge success.
...does anyone else has the taskbar at the bottom of their dreams from time to time?
Does this sig remind you of Agatha Christie?
(C'mon, don't tell me you've never pressed on a URL on a printed page and expected something to happen.)
Back in high school my chemistry teacher once started wiping the white board before everyone had finished taking notes. A girl in class said "No, wait", the teacher stopped halfway through and said "Oh, sorry". Then he drew an undo button (like the one in, for example, MS Word) on the board and pushed it with his hand and said "Well it didn't work, maybe you could just copy someone elses notes".
and it made this cool crunching sound. I still can't figure out where they hid the speaker but that guy sure writes slick Javascript!
Engineering is the art of compromise.