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Will Your Next Touchscreen Be Touchless?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the control-the-spread-of-cooties dept.

forgot_my_username writes "The MIT Media Lab is developing a motion screen computer. It looks back at you. It measures light and gestures, and uses those to control the interface. 'Imagine every pixel on your LCD screen emitting light could also be receiving light,' said Ramesh Rakar, an Associate Professor at the Media Lab. They even mention the health benefits of not touching displays."

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  1. I prefer my mouse. by commodore64_love · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can use my computer without barely moving at all. It's the perfect tool for my lazy self. ;-)

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  2. Calibration by Trip6 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope there's a sensitivity calibration - I wouldn't want me shaking my fist at an outrageous story inadvertently reformatting my hard drive.

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  3. Health Benefits by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Funny

    They even mention the health benefits of not touching displays.

    Especially for my co-workers. The last one who touched my display got stabbed in the hand by a spork.

  4. It looks back at you? by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The MIT media lab. is developing a motion screen computer. It looks back at you.

    What are you doing, Dave?

  5. Obligitory H2G2 by Conspiracy_Of_Doves · · Score: 5, Funny

    A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wavebands for news of himself. The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive — you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme.

    ....

    Another voice broke in, presumably Halfrunt. He said: "Vell, Zaphod's jist zis guy you know?" but got no further because an electric pencil flew across the cabin and through the radio's on/off sensitive airspace. Zaphod turned and glared at Trillian — she had thrown the pencil.

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  6. This could be bad for pron by forgot_my_username · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hypothetically, if I knew someone who may have at one point or another visited a site with risque adult material....
    well, I see potential interface issues
    ...
    right, I am off to register touchlessporntube.com

  7. I feel a sneeze coming on... by tomzyk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just think, with this no-touch screen, sitting infuriatingly still becomes a requirement for your computer to continue doing what it was doing.

    Aahhh aaahh AHHH ACHOOO!

    You have just motioned that you want to reformat your D partition. Is this correct?

    "What?! No I didn't!!"

    You nose appears to be pointing towards the YES button and your emphatic gestures indicate the CLICK action. Formatting now.....

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