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Microsoft - No More Keyboards
http://www.metacafe.com/ ^ | 6/23/2007 | Micirosft

Posted on 07/10/2007 12:42:31 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze

This is a link to a television feature (VIDEO) higlighting some Microsoft technology. It looks pretty cool.

Here's the link again.


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To: Sgt_Schultze
I wonder which came first, the MS version or this one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sz8ExZndc

http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/

“Bi-manual, multi-point, and multi-user interactions on a graphical display surface”

If I recall correctly, the hardware is home-brewed and the software is Linux running on a Mac.

21 posted on 07/10/2007 1:31:04 PM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

I think you mean no more mouses, right? You would still need a keyboard of some sort for text input. Voice recognition still sucks to be used over a keyboard.


22 posted on 07/10/2007 1:33:51 PM PDT by SwordofTruth (God is good all the time.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze
Sure - we're all gonna be using Vista's voice recognition module... Like This.
23 posted on 07/10/2007 1:34:54 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Sgt_Schultze
Update, The fellow formed his own company “to develop and market the most advanced multi-touch system in the world”.

New demo reel here...

http://www.perceptivepixel.com/

I WANT ONE !!!.

24 posted on 07/10/2007 1:41:06 PM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

So, if I want to use it to write a novel, all the words in the English language are on the screen and I just have to drag them where I want them?

No, thanks. I’ll take a keyboard. “Sorry, buddy, there will be NO keyboard interface on our new computer. You are screwed.”

I don’t want to talk to the thing, either. It makes it rough when there are other people around.


25 posted on 07/10/2007 1:48:57 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: gridlock

What’s the space key for? Rrrrrrr! is all one word.


26 posted on 07/10/2007 1:57:18 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: Right Wing Assault

“So, if I want to use it to write a novel, all the words in the English language are on the screen and I just have to drag them where I want them?”

Oh my, no.

That would take up too much disc space and besides, new words are added to vocabulary every day.

No, you will have a screen with all the letters in both their upper and lower case, a space, and some punctuation. You’d drag the novel down one character at a time.

Of course, you may think it’s a little slow, but Stephen Hawkings says it’s faster than a blow tube.


27 posted on 07/10/2007 2:03:29 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: TommyDale
"So how will we do the ALT-CTL-DEL regular function required by Microsoft products?"

Like this...



:0)
28 posted on 07/10/2007 2:07:07 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Bigh4u2

I luv that.


29 posted on 07/10/2007 2:09:10 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

ping


30 posted on 07/10/2007 2:43:06 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: Bigh4u2

LOL! That’s fantastic!


31 posted on 07/10/2007 2:48:25 PM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: ShadowAce

PING!


32 posted on 07/10/2007 3:09:03 PM PDT by CedarDave (Only Republicans commit crimes. With Democrats it's a misunderstanding or baseless Republican charge)
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To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; ..

33 posted on 07/10/2007 3:28:02 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Microsoft would be well advised to keep all their customers’ fingers occupied at all times.


34 posted on 07/10/2007 4:29:38 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

microsoft.com/surface


35 posted on 07/10/2007 5:34:19 PM PDT by dubie
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To: Sgt_Schultze; ShadowAce; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Swordmaker
Microsoft - No More Keyboards -- we'll use Voice Recognition!
36 posted on 07/10/2007 9:47:08 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Touch screens! Wow, Microsoft, you’re sure ahead of the times....

This is, anyhow, not so much effective for elimination of the keyboard as elimination of the mouse. Trying to type on a two dimensional screen “keyboard” will always be a frustrating, non-ergonomic experience.


37 posted on 07/11/2007 2:30:53 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: gcruse
rrrrRRrrrrr rrrrrrrr rrRrrrRrrr <avast>
38 posted on 07/11/2007 2:32:20 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: HiTech RedNeck

LOL


39 posted on 07/11/2007 5:06:57 AM PDT by gcruse (Let's strike Iran while it's hot.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

The whole interface seems to be more of a novelty than anything else. I have a hard time picturing getting actual work done on one of those things.


40 posted on 07/11/2007 7:51:41 AM PDT by SeƱor Zorro ("The ability to speak does not make you intelligent"--Qui-Gon Jinn)
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