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It's a bit of a bummer because it's trivial and boring. It almost looks like it's just a touchscreen with pockets on the front that you blow compressed air into

by saulrh 14y ago

It's a bit of a bummer because it's trivial and boring. It almost looks like it's just a touchscreen with pockets on the front that you blow compressed air into. The fact that this is getting so much attention - and the fact that it's wasting some of our time in the process - is kind of annoying.

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koeselitz 14y ago
There are millions of people now who carry around little extraneous keyboards with their iPads - and probably millions more who don't buy iPads or any other touch device because they really don't like typing when they can't touch-type. Maybe that seems like a trivial problem, but any gap in the market keeping people from devices is generally a gap worth working to close.
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sanjiallblue 14y ago
I feel like people like you complained when the first computers were invented because they were slow. This is haptic technology progressing and just the fact that it's getting major media attention is amazing since on-demand haptic feedback is the biggest presence missing from digital technology. Touch is just such a fundamental part of the human experience that anything that advances the technology that gets us to that implementation should be celebrated and here you are declaring it annoying? It boggles the mind...
- saulrh 14y ago
  This isn't a prototype computer. This is a prototype relay that can only open. If they'd given their engineers just two more months they'd have been able to show off a grid of pixels - something that would work in multiple orientations with arbitrary UI elements. Show me the full relay and an adder and I'll be happy.
- warfangle 14y ago
  Electrostatic haptic feedback looks much, much, much more promising. Toshiba demo'd it two years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jXITjLurof0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j...
  - kalleboo 14y ago
    That looks amazing, I wonder why it hasn't been commercialized yet. Too expensive?

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koeselitz 14y ago

There are millions of people now who carry around little extraneous keyboards with their iPads - and probably millions more who don't buy iPads or any other touch device because they really don't like typing when they can't touch-type. Maybe that seems like a trivial problem, but any gap in the market keeping people from devices is generally a gap worth working to close.

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sanjiallblue 14y ago

I feel like people like you complained when the first computers were invented because they were slow. This is haptic technology progressing and just the fact that it's getting major media attention is amazing since on-demand haptic feedback is the biggest presence missing from digital technology. Touch is just such a fundamental part of the human experience that anything that advances the technology that gets us to that implementation should be celebrated and here you are declaring it annoying? It boggles the mind...

saulrh 14y ago
This isn't a prototype computer. This is a prototype relay that can only open. If they'd given their engineers just two more months they'd have been able to show off a grid of pixels - something that would work in multiple orientations with arbitrary UI elements. Show me the full relay and an adder and I'll be happy.
warfangle 14y ago
Electrostatic haptic feedback looks much, much, much more promising. Toshiba demo'd it two years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jXITjLurof0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j...
- kalleboo 14y ago
  That looks amazing, I wonder why it hasn't been commercialized yet. Too expensive?