Comments on: 10/GUI Demo Video More Impressive Than the Tech http://todd.is/10gui-demo-video-more-impressive-than-the-tech.html this is for me Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:26:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: admin http://todd.is/10gui-demo-video-more-impressive-than-the-tech.html/comment-page-1#comment-7490 admin Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:54:58 +0000 http://www.fontwhore.com/?p=392#comment-7490 I'm a step ahead of you... just filed the papers for ElectriPiano Corporation and bought electripiano.biz. Seems more like extrapolation than innovation to me, but it's nice to see a distinct two-hand touch surface solve the ergonomic problem. Although it'd still be putting me in the keyboard position, which has given me the most forward-sloped shoulders one tailor has ever seen. Why not an input device that makes me more Lou Ferrigno-esque? I’m a step ahead of you… just filed the papers for ElectriPiano Corporation and bought electripiano.biz.

Seems more like extrapolation than innovation to me, but it’s nice to see a distinct two-hand touch surface solve the ergonomic problem. Although it’d still be putting me in the keyboard position, which has given me the most forward-sloped shoulders one tailor has ever seen. Why not an input device that makes me more Lou Ferrigno-esque?

]]> By: Jonah http://todd.is/10gui-demo-video-more-impressive-than-the-tech.html/comment-page-1#comment-7458 Jonah Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:30:01 +0000 http://www.fontwhore.com/?p=392#comment-7458 It's a fundamentally thin idea -- not to mention pure vapor -- and makes some broad assumptions about workflow that are needlessly restrictive. (What if you want more than 1 or 2 apps in focus? What if you've got multiple monitors? What if you don't have an extra 6 inches of desk space in front of your computer? Or haven't got a desk at all?) That said, I watched through to the very end, because it was just so damned confident. And even if 90% of it is crap, so's 90% of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law" rel="nofollow">everything</a>. At least it's suggesting innovation, and movement in new directions. And I have a strong suspicion that if you gave that 10-finger multitouch interface to a bunch of geeks, within a year you'd have 20 really clever, productive uses for it. (And probably half a dozen really sweet casual games. And 50 mediocre electric pianos.) It’s a fundamentally thin idea — not to mention pure vapor — and makes some broad assumptions about workflow that are needlessly restrictive. (What if you want more than 1 or 2 apps in focus? What if you’ve got multiple monitors? What if you don’t have an extra 6 inches of desk space in front of your computer? Or haven’t got a desk at all?)

That said, I watched through to the very end, because it was just so damned confident. And even if 90% of it is crap, so’s 90% of everything. At least it’s suggesting innovation, and movement in new directions.

And I have a strong suspicion that if you gave that 10-finger multitouch interface to a bunch of geeks, within a year you’d have 20 really clever, productive uses for it. (And probably half a dozen really sweet casual games. And 50 mediocre electric pianos.)

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