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BendDesk Merges Computer, Monitor and Desk
cylonlover writes "Researchers from Aachen University's Media Computing Group have created a computer workstation called the BendDesk where the desk and screen are transformed into one multi-touch display. The display is curved at the middle and uses infrared emitters and cameras to track user movement over the whole of the surface, which has its graphical user interface beamed onto it by a couple of short throw projectors hidden within its wooden frame."
...and they want their gorilla hand syndrome back. As the makers themselves admit, completely lacking any ergonomy ("users tended to separate the vertical and horizontal planes and avoid using the curve as much as possible."). Working with your hand(s) above heart level is tiresome, for reasons entirely physiological - there's plenty of research for that, but we geeks just tend to dismiss it as NIH and assume "we know better", don't we? It's a very cool toy project, yes - but utterly impractical.
Because something can be between the chair and keyboard but NOT between the keyboard and chair?????