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YES!
My desk is coming!
Waaaaay back in 1993-94, I was working at the Manhattan Public Library as the bookmobile librarian (oh, ok, "library assistant."). It was a great job, but I was actually only out on the road about 3 days a week. The other two days, it was a typical office desk job. I was processing books, shuffling around paperwork, preparing reports, etc. Normal office drudgery.
I remember sitting at my desk one day, thinking, "This is not how office work should be."
I decided that day that I wanted to digitize all of the information I was shuffling around and working on. Get rid of the stacks of paper, and put it all into a computer. But more than just usher in the "paperless office," I wanted to change the way I interacted with computerized information.
I sat there and looked at my desktop that day, and thought, "Wouldn't it be cool if my whole desktop was a computer screen? A touchscreen?"
I'd shuffle the papers around on the virtual desktop, not using a mouse, but by just touching the desktop where a virtual "document" was, open it up, edit it, set it aside, file it away, etc. I'd get rid of the keyboard, and make a virtual keyboard that could appear on the desktop when I needed it. (Ever see the move "Tron?" There's a scene in it when Dillinger uses a keyboard that appears on his desktop.) And there were glimmers of the computer interface I want in SF movies like ''Minority Report'' and ''The Matrix'' The ability to use my hands to handle information the way a weaver handles a loom fascinates me. I've long wanted a mouse-free interface.
The technology hadn't caught up to my imagination... until now.
Thanks to New York University's Jeff Han, it's here!
High-resolution, low-cost, scaleable, multi-touch sensing computer screens with an intuitive, "interface-free" design.
Apple SO needs to jump on this. I want this. I've wanted it for more than a decade.
My desk is coming!
Waaaaay back in 1993-94, I was working at the Manhattan Public Library as the bookmobile librarian (oh, ok, "library assistant."). It was a great job, but I was actually only out on the road about 3 days a week. The other two days, it was a typical office desk job. I was processing books, shuffling around paperwork, preparing reports, etc. Normal office drudgery.
I remember sitting at my desk one day, thinking, "This is not how office work should be."
I decided that day that I wanted to digitize all of the information I was shuffling around and working on. Get rid of the stacks of paper, and put it all into a computer. But more than just usher in the "paperless office," I wanted to change the way I interacted with computerized information.
I sat there and looked at my desktop that day, and thought, "Wouldn't it be cool if my whole desktop was a computer screen? A touchscreen?"
I'd shuffle the papers around on the virtual desktop, not using a mouse, but by just touching the desktop where a virtual "document" was, open it up, edit it, set it aside, file it away, etc. I'd get rid of the keyboard, and make a virtual keyboard that could appear on the desktop when I needed it. (Ever see the move "Tron?" There's a scene in it when Dillinger uses a keyboard that appears on his desktop.) And there were glimmers of the computer interface I want in SF movies like ''Minority Report'' and ''The Matrix'' The ability to use my hands to handle information the way a weaver handles a loom fascinates me. I've long wanted a mouse-free interface.
The technology hadn't caught up to my imagination... until now.
Thanks to New York University's Jeff Han, it's here!
High-resolution, low-cost, scaleable, multi-touch sensing computer screens with an intuitive, "interface-free" design.
Apple SO needs to jump on this. I want this. I've wanted it for more than a decade.