Well if the drawings are accurate and cameras are used to track gestures, your hands fingers etc... then its a matter of time before someone develops a camera logger to record password keystrokes. It would probably be easier then the keyboard keystroke data leak hack.
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Apple Researching Physical Keyboards with Motion Control to Replace Mouse
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This concept already exists in a product.
Sony created it in the PS3 wireless keypad. It's a simple keyboard (like a qwerty keyboard on a mobile phone,) and with a click of a button become a touch-sensitive trackpad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYBQwjNYpBk
Sony created it in the PS3 wireless keypad. It's a simple keyboard (like a qwerty keyboard on a mobile phone,) and with a click of a button become a touch-sensitive trackpad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYBQwjNYpBk
Hmm, not sure about it moving a tiny bit. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out if my trackpoint actually visibly moved, or if it was just flex in the plastic it was attached to. Conclusion: with the rubber nipple, and the play in the skin on your fingertip, and in the joints of your finger, it sure feels like it moves. Whether it actually does is another matter.
Probably not quicker in use than a mouse, I agree there, but it took a lot less space then a separate mouse and pad, and it took less space than a trackpad (my Thinkbook had no trackpad) and it was far quicker to move my hands from the home row to the trackpoint and back than to a touchpad or the mouse.
I'm sure the Neanderthals were pretty happy with their caves and couldn't image anything better since it was perfect for their needs
Yes, it was perfect for them. Then caves evolved into huts, into houses. Still used for the same purpose; shelter. Mice are now multi-button, wireless, laser, etc. But they basically offer the same functionality, they just have evolved. However, the Neanderthals had more to worry about than caves, such as extinction. But I'm sure they would have loved the Magic Mouse.
I said keyboard. I didn't differentiate between various layouts. But either is faster than other methods of input, including motion or voice.
Again, I refer to mouse in it's basic form. I don't care if you have a roller ball, laser, scroll wheel, two-button, three button. To move your point on the screen as fast and with the most precision, a mouse still is the best way to do that. I'm only going by the technology I have used in the past. Touch is ok for light duty. I sold my Magic Trackpad after a week of trying to like it.
And yes, a mouse is quicker than touch... on a computer. On an iPad, touch is much better/intuitive, and makes much more sense. But if you and I have a 27" display and are in iPhoto, I'll be getting things done quicker, or just as quick as you, and my arm won't be tired.
Well non-QWERTY is certainly an option for the future.
QWERTY was designed to slow people down on the original type writers because the hammers would stick together if struck simultaneously.
QWERTY was designed to slow people down on the original type writers because the hammers would stick together if struck simultaneously.
I love ergonomic keyboards and miss mine... Every company I work for, I try to get them to buy me one. But most of the time, they bauk at the price. I once bought my own - brought it into work and put a sticker on it, that is was my personal property. They told me to take the keyboard home as employees are not allowed to have personal equipment in the office. They never did fill my request for one.
When you are doing long hours of typing (I am a programmer, who also has to write technical documents and user training material for everything I program) - your hands do not get as tired in the natural position.
Wish Apple did make one (or another company that made an apple one). As it is now, local stores no longer even carry a windows one and I have to look online.
I wish Apple would make one with the magic trackpad instead of a numeric keyboard. Does not have to be bluetooth - a wired one would be fine.
Contact HR and head of IT. This is a basic employee health and safely requirement. I can't imagine this situation being legal in the UK, and I imagine work safety legislation is broadly similar in the US. I am an IT manager in my current job, and your story shocks me.
You are risking your career and future livelihood, and the company are exposing themselves to being prosecuted / a lawsuit from you. You've gone the extra mile and even tried to supply your own keyboard. It isn't 'personal equipment' - it's a medical device / safely device to support you in your job and prevent future injuries.
There are a lot of patents of similar devices. Hard to tell if it will be seen in laptops one day.
Here is a similar project from 2009..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltNSCOzxbvY
Here is a similar project from 2009..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltNSCOzxbvY
No, above means above... not dragging your finger over the keys and their spaces. It is not "basically along the surface".
Although very interesting, it would be very hard to do things like a drag and drop + command tab with this system.
Doing anything that would require a mouse AND keyboard simultaneously (something os x handles much better than Windows).
Have a picture you want to email to someone in mail? Find the image, click and drag, command tab to Mail, command N for new email, drop the image into the body, type it out and send.
Doing anything that would require a mouse AND keyboard simultaneously (something os x handles much better than Windows).
Have a picture you want to email to someone in mail? Find the image, click and drag, command tab to Mail, command N for new email, drop the image into the body, type it out and send.
The point of gestures is to remove the need to do that in the first place.
The fingerworks had a gesture for drag-select (three finger drag over the item(s) of interest), then pinch (the gesture for copy), then flick (the gesture for paste).
When thinking of new paradigms like this one needs to really open the mind into new types of workflow / data entry. Its hard to imagine this input technology in today's terms (at least for some).
Three are literally thousands of gestures that are possible, and can be combined to form a coherent and intuitive gesture 'language', that could do things like "mail this item to someone", or reshape window to the right half.
Most of the people saying this couldn't replace a mouse aren't really wrong. In that nothing but a mouse is good at being a mouse. Gestures, however, are a whole new paradigm - I could even see having a setup where there is a gesturing area AND a mouse [similar to the magic mouse, but more separate].