Will Your Next Touchscreen Be Touchless?

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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Re:what ever happended to "vocie recognition"?

[netsavior]

have you ever worked in a cubicle next to a sales person? When they "rightsized" our department they relocated us to in-between a call-center and a sales floor. It was pure hell people yammering on at the telephone alllll day. Now add to that everyone also yelling shit at their computers, and see how much productivity you gain.

If it won't work for business, it will never catch on.

Now how about voice control for home? Will it work while I watch a movie? because I never game without a movie or at least loud music playing in the same room...


If it won't work for games, it will never catch on.

The holy grail for user interface MUST be silent or close to it, in order to catch on fully. This is why people keep trying stupid alternatives, because the reality is that the "obvious" ones are actually just as bad as the "silly" ones.

Re:I prefer my mouse.

[dingen]

Obviously making your screen the touch surface will never work, for exactly the reason you give. But that doesn't mean that the touch technology itself couldn't work for a desktop computer.

Look at this for example.

Apple already has this patented.

[Brian Recchia]

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060007222%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060007222&RS=DN/20060007222 They have a patent for cameras hidden in between pixels.

Re:Ooh...

[VGPowerlord]

1984's vidscreens were like that if memory serves.

*whoosh*