Comments on: The bright future of Multi-touch http://www.100percentloaded.com/archives/5 Art. Design. Development. Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:31:41 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Brandon http://www.100percentloaded.com/archives/5/comment-page-1#comment-558 Brandon Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:31:41 +0000 http://www.100percentloaded.com/?p=5#comment-558 Multitouch seems new and exciting to us but it is rather old only being more used because of cheaper costs and new opportunities. The real pioneer in this tech is Jeff Han at NYU who says that theirs no reason to conform to a physical device. Yet even the computer industry is one of tradition where old ideas can be hard to replace. I mean comon we are still using a keyboard that is designed literally for slow typing. We've been using that design for a long time and it will change only when everyone is 110% sure the newer ideas are superior. Unfortionitly that wont apply to multitouch until there are more Jeff Hans testing their origionality because we must realize that people will never get a multitouch keyboard if it doesn't outproform a standard one in actual typing. I'm typing this with an iPhone myself and of couse even with my small hands I've messed up and am very slow... A physical keyboard of the same size would be better. Multitouch really suffers from this tradition... What will logitech have to say about multitouch when they lose all sorts of revenue from people discarding external physical keyboards. Remember multitouch is being experimented with and to utalize it like a mac or windows, I see no future of the technology if it doesn't get an os of it's own. Apple undoubitly would not pull that above machine off for some time until the actual typing is figured out for the very least. Typing is the biggest problem for me as we type in every program and can't type efficently at all in multitouch... Han imagines a keyboard that is easy to use and drifts with your fingers and knows what your going to type, but this is easier said than done and qwerty definity isn't in that dream nor is dvorak. Microsoft will be the victor in next gen tech again as we can see through experimentation with the ms surface. The iPhone is no technological leap you give jobs way to much credit look at Japanese and Korean portable devices of several years prior (and american/euro devices more recently) and they utalize the same hardware just apple makes it marketable. I like the idea overall however that bottom screen could change for each program eg a keyboard for a music program. Multitouch seems new and exciting to us but it is rather old only being more used because of cheaper costs and new opportunities. The real pioneer in this tech is Jeff Han at NYU who says that theirs no reason to conform to a physical device. Yet even the computer industry is one of tradition where old ideas can be hard to replace. I mean comon we are still using a keyboard that is designed literally for slow typing. We’ve been using that design for a long time and it will change only when everyone is 110% sure the newer ideas are superior. Unfortionitly that wont apply to multitouch until there are more Jeff Hans testing their origionality because we must realize that people will never get a multitouch keyboard if it doesn’t outproform a standard one in actual typing. I’m typing this with an iPhone myself and of couse even with my small hands I’ve messed up and am very slow… A physical keyboard of the same size would be better. Multitouch really suffers from this tradition… What will logitech have to say about multitouch when they lose all sorts of revenue from people discarding external physical keyboards. Remember multitouch is being experimented with and to utalize it like a mac or windows, I see no future of the technology if it doesn’t get an os of it’s own. Apple undoubitly would not pull that above machine off for some time until the actual typing is figured out for the very least. Typing is the biggest problem for me as we type in every program and can’t type efficently at all in multitouch… Han imagines a keyboard that is easy to use and drifts with your fingers and knows what your going to type, but this is easier said than done and qwerty definity isn’t in that dream nor is dvorak. Microsoft will be the victor in next gen tech again as we can see through experimentation with the ms surface. The iPhone is no technological leap you give jobs way to much credit look at Japanese and Korean portable devices of several years prior (and american/euro devices more recently) and they utalize the same hardware just apple makes it marketable. I like the idea overall however that bottom screen could change for each program eg a keyboard for a music program.

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]]> By: nic http://www.100percentloaded.com/archives/5/comment-page-1#comment-257 nic Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:16:41 +0000 http://www.100percentloaded.com/?p=5#comment-257 I just recently purchased my macbook pro, it's great. editing video on it like a pro - ha. neyways, just as long as the "newer" macbook pro doesn't have that much more power in it, i'll be satisfied with mine, otherwise, i'm glad i got the accidental replacement warantee hehe. i hope they make a quad core laptop soon. I just recently purchased my macbook pro, it’s great. editing video on it like a pro – ha. neyways, just as long as the “newer” macbook pro doesn’t have that much more power in it, i’ll be satisfied with mine, otherwise, i’m glad i got the accidental replacement warantee hehe. i hope they make a quad core laptop soon.

]]> By: Connor http://www.100percentloaded.com/archives/5/comment-page-1#comment-79 Connor Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:32:47 +0000 http://www.100percentloaded.com/?p=5#comment-79 Cool I love apple and I want to know what is the next apple macbook pro Cool I love apple and I want to know what is the next apple macbook pro

]]> By: Jesse http://www.100percentloaded.com/archives/5/comment-page-1#comment-45 Jesse Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:49:22 +0000 http://www.100percentloaded.com/?p=5#comment-45 Multi-touch Technologies WILL replace the keyboard,and change the way we deal with computing! For example, There can be a touch screen keyboard on the screen That can be sized to what ever size you feel fit to use, or most likely there will be a floating keyboard that recoginizes your finger movements when you are wanting to type something, There doesn't even need to be a physical or a virtual keyboard, nor keys at all, only the movements that are made by your fingers when you are typing each and every letter, will be remembered by the computer allowing you to yype freely across, up, and down the whole entire screen, The only thing that would make this akward to type is if the screen is vertical like a traditional computer, But what if the screen is where the Keyboard normally is? This would be extreamely advancing for the Human Race, This is the step to take to evolve into the digital world. Soon, very soon mark my words, therer will be a multi touch surface on almost all of the surfaces in your home, on you refridgerator, to order food from the grocery store, on your coffee table, as a everyday entertainment device, and home computer tour television, etc.., Multi-touch Technologies WILL replace the keyboard,and change the way we deal with computing!
For example, There can be a touch screen keyboard on the screen That can be sized to what ever size you feel fit to use, or most likely there will be a floating keyboard that recoginizes your finger movements when you are wanting to type something, There doesn’t even need to be a physical or a virtual keyboard, nor keys at all, only the movements that are made by your fingers when you are typing each and every letter, will be remembered by the computer allowing you to yype freely across, up, and down the whole entire screen, The only thing that would make this akward to type is if the screen is vertical like a traditional computer, But what if the screen is where the Keyboard normally is? This would be extreamely advancing for the Human Race, This is the step to take to evolve into the digital world.
Soon, very soon mark my words, therer will be a multi touch surface on almost all of the surfaces in your home,
on you refridgerator, to order food from the grocery store,
on your coffee table, as a everyday entertainment device, and home computer
tour television, etc..,

]]> By: Roger Glenn http://www.100percentloaded.com/archives/5/comment-page-1#comment-5 Roger Glenn Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:47:51 +0000 http://www.100percentloaded.com/?p=5#comment-5 I like the idea. However I don't see multi-touch technology replacing the keyboard and trackpad on <em>every model</em> of notebook computer. I have a feeling that it will take a <em>long time</em> for users to let go of the tactile response they get from pressing real keys. A similar technology has been around for a few years already, but I have yet to see anyone actually use one of these <a href="http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/" rel="nofollow">"Virtual Laser Keyboards"</a>, even in the high-tech savvy city of Austin, TX. I like the idea. However I don’t see multi-touch technology replacing the keyboard and trackpad on every model of notebook computer. I have a feeling that it will take a long time for users to let go of the tactile response they get from pressing real keys.

A similar technology has been around for a few years already, but I have yet to see anyone actually use one of these “Virtual Laser Keyboards”, even in the high-tech savvy city of Austin, TX.

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