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The Age of Touch Computing
DigitalDame2 writes "In 2009, touch computing will go mainstream. More and more devices will be legitimately touch-enabled with gesture controls for browsing through photos, tossing objects around the screen, flicking to turn the page of a book, and even playing video games and watching movies. In fact, Gartner analyst Steve Prentice told the BBC recently that the mouse will be dead in three to five years. PCMag has a full look at touch computing — the past, the present, and the future — including an interview with Sabrina Boler, touch UI designer."
Touch Computing?!
It just sounds so dirty... think of the STDs (Software Transmitted Disease)
- Your stupidity got you into this mess, why can't it get you out? -Will Rogers
Also why would I want to be waving my arms at my CRT or LCD screen?
That's too much exercise. The mouse is perfect for a lazy engineer like me. I just prop my arm on the desk and move my hand left or right. I barely move at all!
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
Yeah but boxing games will be great! Except for the whole "replacing your monitor after every session" bit.... :-D
God, schmod. I want my monkey man!
A mouse is way too much work for me ... I use a trackball. Even that's really just a stop-gap until a neural interface is available. Fitness freak.
Cause frankly I have no clue how aiming a sniper rifle will work when you have to sight past your fingers.
If I were to program the inputs for a touch screen FPS, I'd make it so that you bring your thumb and index finger together where the person's head is visible.
"I'm crushing your head!"
Yes. My 12-hour-a-day mousing exercises are why my right hand is so strong. It has nothing to do with anything else.
Nope.
Na-uh.
That's my story and I'm sticking with it.
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
It's also much easier to get to a specific pixel / small area with a mouse than with your fat fingertip.
We're sorry, but the fingers you've used to dial are too fat. To order a magic dialing wand please mash the keypad now.
Simple - just decrease the opacity of your hands.