Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback
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#2Reminded me of Dr. Ivan Sutherland's "SketchPad" demo; here's a video of it with Alan Kay commenting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=495nCzxM9PI
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#3Better pen input would be great, especially for drawing.
How about some form of chorded keyboard or glove? A chorded keyboard was demonstrated in 1968 by Engelbart:
http://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/library/extra4/sloan/mouses...
Google's Soli project might lead to better input:
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#4Better pen input would be great, especially for drawing. How about some form of chorded keyboard or glove? A chorded keyboard was demonstrated in 1968 by Engelbart: http://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/library/extra4/sloan/mouses... Google's Soli project might lead to better input: http://youtu.be/0QNiZfSsPc0
Soli looks very interesting. There is Smarter Objects from MIT Fluid Interfaces that is similar in nature, but has a more dynamic approach. It's certainly not as simple as Soli seems because of the augmented-reality component it uses. But if Google brings back Glass and ships Soli in IoT/smart household objects, then you'd have the same result.
--EDIT-- Link to MIT Fluid Interfaces Smart Objects: http://fluid.media.mit.edu/projects/smarter-objects
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#5How many tens of millions of dollars has Microsoft sunk in Surface, tablets and other touch technologies, only to have Apple eat their lunch? How many billions sunk in MSR every year yielding no commercial products? Microsoft has always needed to get their product vision from somewhere else, and for all of the hoopla about Nadella and open sourcing everything, that core fact about Microsoft hasn't changed. It's really sad because Microsoft has everything stacked in its favour to succeed. I mean it's not like like don't succeed on those products that they copy from others, starting from Windows all the way down to the Xbox and Bing, but when it comes to commercial innovation, that's not who they are.
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#6Better pen input would be great, especially for drawing. How about some form of chorded keyboard or glove? A chorded keyboard was demonstrated in 1968 by Engelbart: http://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/library/extra4/sloan/mouses... Google's Soli project might lead to better input: http://youtu.be/0QNiZfSsPc0
I have been using Windows Tablet PC since 2003 (HP, Toshiba , and now Fujitsu).
The (typically) Wacom stylus works very well and with OneNote, allowed me to take extensive class notes across two masters programs.
OneNote also interprets the handwriting so it was quite the pleasant surprise to find that my scribblings were somewhat searchable.
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#7I'd love an A4 sized one of these and a screen, monochrome would be fine, I spent so much of my life drawing out code/approaches on squared pads only to leave the pad at the office.
All I would want is some way of indexing them and one press to send as an email.
I'd drop 200 quid on that right now.
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#8How many tens of millions of dollars has Microsoft sunk in Surface, tablets and other touch technologies, only to have Apple eat their lunch? How many billions sunk in MSR every year yielding no commercial products? Microsoft has always needed to get their product vision from somewhere else, and for all of the hoopla about Nadella and open sourcing everything, that core fact about Microsoft hasn't changed. It's reall…
Microsoft seems to be perfectly successful to me, no?
R&D, by virtue of being R&D, rarely makes it to the market in a recognizable form. My guess is that the lessons learned there certainly have been applied to their real profit centers.
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#9> he’s built a computer with almost zero latency—when you do something, the computer reacts instantly.
Oh, the irony.
It's Microsoft's own fault in the first place that we have an operating system that is so horribly unresponsive.
And, now, umpteen years later, it's a BIG ADVANCE that we actually make computers do what we want, when we want. Just like before Microsoft.
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#10Reminds me of the 1ms touch delay technology also from Microsoft's applied sciences group.