phones traveling greater than so many feet per second are disable for texting or
phone needs to be in one place for longer than so many seconds before texting is enabled
Apple did a ATG Human Interface Group project that publicly demonstrated a mac tablet (not newton) gesture interfaces at WWDC, early 90's. The tablet was a pen and one finger, both could be used at same time but only one finger (single layer of ITO). Not long after AT&T gave Apple a multi-touch (five fingers) transparent panel using a XY matrix ITO, it was integrated into tablet. At about the same time, Apple discussed with a display manufacturer about developing a mixed mode display, modify the XY display drivers to sense fingers as well as drive display. cool stuff
hypercard did connect to networks by way of developer written "xcmds". There were usenet, gopher, rpc, ftp, telnet, wais xcmds. There was a project called "spider" from ATG that did link hypercard across a network. However, the ecosystem of network computers was so small in the mid 80's it did not flourish.
I was the penlite manager... it was indeed a duo with the display flipped, designed to be docked in the duo dock. it also had a "transformer" bag with an integrated keyboard, the bag also worked as a stand and a harness for medical workers (most of the beta testers were with a hospital). It was a wireless pen (a version with eraser and pressure stroke), also had a wireless cdpd module for cellular connectivity, ability to IR link to other penlites, early firewire, powerpc upgrade, a long list... lots of stories about that project.. very fun, fast track, only 9 months to production. oh yes it went into pilot production before executive management killed it, most were shipped to Japan. The first prototype had a pen and finger interface; project scribe. That one you could ink with the pen and flip pages with your finger, demonstrated at an Apple WWDC. Some other ATG less known projects; hand held mac (think pre-palm) that ran hypercard, done by apple ATG and sony (project names; handimac, smartifacts, pocket crystal) that became general magic. The digital camera done with toshiba (image of this made it into time mag) then sanyo then kodak (project name; papaya). The mobile media device with cd-rom (also ran hypercard) that became kalieda (project sweetpea). Both general magic and kalieda suffered from the anti mac os license position, as both had to recreate the OS and in doing so delayed by years the release.
I don't know if is a specific mechanism in question or if it was the act of vibrating that is in question. I assumed it was the haptics patents and use of vibration.
it can get more complicated... prior art can make an invention obvious therefore invalid
There is prior art of vibration for feeback in user input device demonstrated in public forum. Where are all the old Atari then Apple people? Alan are you out there? This reminds me of the xerox graffiti vs palm patent war... I have to imagine that someone demonstrated that Ledeen-Teitelman created a single stroke character recognition, years I mean decades before graffiti.
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phones traveling greater than so many feet per second are disable for texting or phone needs to be in one place for longer than so many seconds before texting is enabled
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Apple did a ATG Human Interface Group project that publicly demonstrated a mac tablet (not newton) gesture interfaces at WWDC, early 90's. The tablet was a pen and one finger, both could be used at same time but only one finger (single layer of ITO). Not long after AT&T gave Apple a multi-touch (five fingers) transparent panel using a XY matrix ITO, it was integrated into tablet. At about the same time, Apple discussed with a display manufacturer about developing a mixed mode display, modify the XY display drivers to sense fingers as well as drive display. cool stuff
http://www.google.com/patents?id=uRkgAAAAEBAJ&dq=5689662
hypercard did connect to networks by way of developer written "xcmds". There were usenet, gopher, rpc, ftp, telnet, wais xcmds. There was a project called "spider" from ATG that did link hypercard across a network. However, the ecosystem of network computers was so small in the mid 80's it did not flourish.
I was the penlite manager... it was indeed a duo with the display flipped, designed to be docked in the duo dock. it also had a "transformer" bag with an integrated keyboard, the bag also worked as a stand and a harness for medical workers (most of the beta testers were with a hospital). It was a wireless pen (a version with eraser and pressure stroke), also had a wireless cdpd module for cellular connectivity, ability to IR link to other penlites, early firewire, powerpc upgrade, a long list... lots of stories about that project.. very fun, fast track, only 9 months to production. oh yes it went into pilot production before executive management killed it, most were shipped to Japan. The first prototype had a pen and finger interface; project scribe. That one you could ink with the pen and flip pages with your finger, demonstrated at an Apple WWDC.
Some other ATG less known projects; hand held mac (think pre-palm) that ran hypercard, done by apple ATG and sony (project names; handimac, smartifacts, pocket crystal) that became general magic. The digital camera done with toshiba (image of this made it into time mag) then sanyo then kodak (project name; papaya). The mobile media device with cd-rom (also ran hypercard) that became kalieda (project sweetpea). Both general magic and kalieda suffered from the anti mac os license position, as both had to recreate the OS and in doing so delayed by years the release.
I don't know if is a specific mechanism in question or if it was the act of vibrating that is in question. I assumed it was the haptics patents and use of vibration. it can get more complicated... prior art can make an invention obvious therefore invalid
There is prior art of vibration for feeback in user input device demonstrated in public forum. Where are all the old Atari then Apple people? Alan are you out there? This reminds me of the xerox graffiti vs palm patent war... I have to imagine that someone demonstrated that Ledeen-Teitelman created a single stroke character recognition, years I mean decades before graffiti.
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