This could be great for all those people with carpol tunnel. You can use it with your arm in a natural, comfortable position.
Also if you wore a 3d mouse/glove on the back of your hand you could probably type without having to put it down. just moving you fingers could represent button clicks.
The biggest problem i see is that I don't want to keep your hand and arm in any position for longer than a second. So, if they add a button for the thumb, to contol when moving the device causes cursor to move, I'll consider buying one.
This would be great for CAD when you have to make presision drawaings with alot of mouse work, and also have to type in text notes. The jump from keyboard to mouse is just more work than it could be.
This would be a huge leap for computers adapting to human needs, rather than the norm of people adjusting to thier computers limitations.
Is there any advantage using DVD-R, or DVD-RW's over DVD-RAM disks.
From what I understand DVD-RAM disks have the same capacity. New versions store about 9.6GB. They seem cheaper, and are already availible.
One thing I like about DVD-RAM disks is there relatively cheap, $25 for 5.2GB of storage, and they can be mounted and used like ordinary hard disks. No special software is required to burn the disk, and it behaves like any other floppy, zip disk or hard drive. I haven't heard that the DVD-R or DVD-RW would have this ability which I think is a major disadvantage when combined with the high drive prices. Are any RVD-R or DVD-RW drives available yet?
I have a DVD-RAM on my current machine and it makes a great and cheap back up system. I just wish home DVD players would be able to take the caddies for the 2-sided DVD-RAM disks. I think that most can read the one sided DVD-RAM disks without the caddy.
I'd like to hear more about the pros and cons for each system.
Thanks
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As already stated, Firewire has this ability, but...
what firewire devices cn take advantage of P2P connections.
For example, are there any firewire cameras which could save pictures or movies to a FW harddrive like the ipod without using a master computer.
This could be great for all those people with carpol tunnel. You can use it with your arm in a natural, comfortable position.
Also if you wore a 3d mouse/glove on the back of your hand you could probably type without having to put it down. just moving you fingers could represent button clicks.
The biggest problem i see is that I don't want to keep your hand and arm in any position for longer than a second. So, if they add a button for the thumb, to contol when moving the device causes cursor to move, I'll consider buying one.
This would be great for CAD when you have to make presision drawaings with alot of mouse work, and also have to type in text notes. The jump from keyboard to mouse is just more work than it could be.
This would be a huge leap for computers adapting to human needs, rather than the norm of people adjusting to thier computers limitations.
Is there any advantage using DVD-R, or DVD-RW's over DVD-RAM disks.
From what I understand DVD-RAM disks have the same capacity. New versions store about 9.6GB. They seem cheaper, and are already availible.
One thing I like about DVD-RAM disks is there relatively cheap, $25 for 5.2GB of storage, and they can be mounted and used like ordinary hard disks. No special software is required to burn the disk, and it behaves like any other floppy, zip disk or hard drive. I haven't heard that the DVD-R or DVD-RW would have this ability which I think is a major disadvantage when combined with the high drive prices. Are any RVD-R or DVD-RW drives available yet?
I have a DVD-RAM on my current machine and it makes a great and cheap back up system. I just wish home DVD players would be able to take the caddies for the 2-sided DVD-RAM disks. I think that most can read the one sided DVD-RAM disks without the caddy.
I'd like to hear more about the pros and cons for each system.
Thanks