Tablet PC's
April 29th 2010 13:34
Great Article - Absolutely Hit the Nail on the Head
Touchscreen UI's could be as varied as the number of manufacturers. It won't get quite that crazy, but movies like Minority Report (Tom Cruise, 2002) give us hints and tantalizing glimpses of what computing can be once touchscreens take over the market.
Steve Wozniak has talked about a touchscreen globe running Google Earth, so that when you touch a spot, it zooms in. You can probably imagine how cool it could be.
What I find most intriguing is the growing trend toward combining TV and computing. Linux distributions like Mythbuntu, LinuxMCE (MediaCenterEdition), and GeeXboX. These distros attempt to bridge the gap between internet and TV and even radio/audio.
Interesting, but doomed to fail, I think. It's fine for older hardware - the present GUI using keyboard and mouse will be fine for that sort of application, but touchscreen tablets are more intimate, and people are too used to using a remote to get up to touch a wall-screen in order to change a channel.
Of course, if they make a nifty "glove" like in the movie, so that I could sit on my couch and "touch" my screen from 10 feet away, that would fix the problem, and I could switch from live TV to internet any time I wanted to check stats during a game, the weather, and then flip back. Or I could shrink my TV screen to take up half the screen, and have my internet running next to it, or tabbed.
Hmmm... I hope the Internet TV developers are thinking the same way I am. It might just work after all.
Touchscreen UI's could be as varied as the number of manufacturers. It won't get quite that crazy, but movies like Minority Report (Tom Cruise, 2002) give us hints and tantalizing glimpses of what computing can be once touchscreens take over the market.
Steve Wozniak has talked about a touchscreen globe running Google Earth, so that when you touch a spot, it zooms in. You can probably imagine how cool it could be.
What I find most intriguing is the growing trend toward combining TV and computing. Linux distributions like Mythbuntu, LinuxMCE (MediaCenterEdition), and GeeXboX. These distros attempt to bridge the gap between internet and TV and even radio/audio.
Interesting, but doomed to fail, I think. It's fine for older hardware - the present GUI using keyboard and mouse will be fine for that sort of application, but touchscreen tablets are more intimate, and people are too used to using a remote to get up to touch a wall-screen in order to change a channel.
Of course, if they make a nifty "glove" like in the movie, so that I could sit on my couch and "touch" my screen from 10 feet away, that would fix the problem, and I could switch from live TV to internet any time I wanted to check stats during a game, the weather, and then flip back. Or I could shrink my TV screen to take up half the screen, and have my internet running next to it, or tabbed.
Hmmm... I hope the Internet TV developers are thinking the same way I am. It might just work after all.
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