Ideas For the Next Generation In Human-Computer Interfaces

Singularity Hub writes "For decades our options for interacting with the digital world have been limited to keyboards, mice, and joysticks. Now with a new generation of exciting new interfaces in the pipeline our interaction with the digital world will be forever changed. Singularity Hub looks at some amazing demonstrations, mostly videos, that showcase new ways of interacting with the digital world." Along similar lines, reader shakuni points out a facial expression-driven user interface reported on News.com for operating, say, an iPhone, explaining "This device is tiny and fits into the ear and measures movements inside the ear due to changes in facial expression and then uses that as input triggers. So [tongue out] starts or stops your iPod Touch; [Wink] rewinds to the last song; and [smile] replays the same song."

Comments

Re:Facial Expressions?

[icebike]

The people walking down the street talking via bluetooth seem odd to you because they prefer the conversation with a distant person to dealing with you. If your need for attention weren't so acute this wouldn't bother you at all.

A connected world is the cure for the provincialism and prejudice of place. Global personal communications have been a goal of and a prerequisite for peaceful co-existence of differing cultures since the Pleistocene, and when we have nearly achieved it, we get sniping from the perpetually miffed. It hardly seems fair.

The proposed solution in TFA is just one brief pit stop on the road to cerebral control of devices. Calm down. Whether or not it is clear to your the universe is unfolding as it should.