Friday, May 30, 2003

Macs most reliable In a survey of 39,000 Consumer Reports readers, Apple emerged on top with the fewest number of defec... [MacNN] To post this is entirely selfish. I would like to be able to use Apple computers in another 10 years.... 9:06:16 PM    comment []; The iGesture Wired reports on a company called FingerWorks has an idea for eliminating all that repetitive strain: hand gestures. FingerWorks sells two types of products. The iGesture pad is about the size of a standard mouse pad. The TouchStream keyboard functions like a regular keyboard, but also incorporates the same gesture-sensing technology, eliminating the need for a mouse. The gesturing interface works like this. To open a file, a user rotates a hand as if to open a jar. To close a file requires the opposite rotation. To cut a piece of text, pinch the fingers together, and to paste, flick the fingers outward. To zoom in, expand all five fingers, jazz-hands style. Contract the hand to zoom out. [Gizmodo] Cute, but when I think of Gesture I imagine a movement in the air - not on a sensing pad. What's the point, really....I want what Tom Cruise does in he movie Minority Report and the ability to do different things with each hand at the same time - like paning an instrument from left to right with a gesture of my left hand while turning down the volume of that instrument with a different gesture from my right hand for example..... 9:05:55 PM    comment [];

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