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Comment by millerm | Hacker News Reader

I am so looking forward to getting mine. I ordered the thing in August of last year. Guess they didn't like my application for a touch free interface for some hospital software I've worked on to get me an early development device. I thought the idea of the possibility of zero infection risk interface would be a great plus for this. But, they wanted apps for the masses I'm guessing.

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My proposal was for a medical data manipulation tool for surgeons in an operating room, and I received one. Maybe I just beat you to it ;)

Well, congrats! I hope it's been fun! I'm excited.

They didn't like that, but they liked my application for a gesture based file browser? I feel bad for being on the dev program now...

This would have been a great app, instead of just rehashed games.

It's also possible that medical applications (and, by extension, deploying the hardware in a hospital) would require them to have a whole different set of dev, manufacturing, and QA procedures, much like flight control and other "mission critical" software.

Could be. But, again, they can use iPads and other random tablets, cheap PCs bought from anywhere on the internet, flea market computer mice and keyboards, cheap flatscreen tv's for the wall, etc. and that doesn't seem to be a problem. :-)

They also didn't seem too interested in our application for a radiation oncology treatment planning tool, so maybe they just weren't into medical stuff?

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