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A GUI For Books

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the please-touch-here dept.

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.

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  1. What about Grandma? by amigabill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This page on the vendor's site has videos of a 7-year-old using a TouchBook.

    OK, but little kids pick up on things pretty well. Like grandma asking little Timmy to open her child-proof medecine bottle for her.

    Show me a video of my grandma using this thing and I'll be impressed.