A crazy summer project to reinvent desktop human-computer interaction

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14 points·seahsq··7 comments

previous posting has some good discussion on this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=877535

They lost me when they pronounced that multiple scattered windows are a bad UI. I couldn't live without them. And their stacked windows cover up the clock. And you still have to switch back and forth between pointing and keyboard.

But it looks sweet anyway. I want one.

Argh. Well, if you get past the wall of Future Tech buzzwords they've got some great ideas. These come later in the video though, as the first portion is basically:

"Mouses aren't enough, we need [what equates to large ipad screen, AKA tablet, AKA nothing really new here]"

This site is almost 6 months old, before we knew anything real about the iPad. And it is about using a touch surface to control a separate screen, not touching a screen.

So what if it's older than the public release of the iPad? The design is still the same.

But like I said: http://www.wacom.com/cintiq/cintiq-21ux.php Not really anything new on that portion of the video.

Personally, I think that's mega-unintuitive when you can have the things you're touching right there, in front of your face. Sure, it gets rid of the issue of fingers blocking the display, but people really like the tangibility of the touchscreen. Perhaps iPad-like devices will function as I/O devices for desktops in the future, but it seems more likely that for most markets they'll just completely replace them.

Most Annoying Voiceover in Lame Marketing Video, 2010.

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