Comments on: Video: The future of computing

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Microsoft’s new coffee-table touchscreen computer

Wed, 30 May 2007 19:04:50 +0000

[...] Definitely, positively the second-most awesome touchscreen technology we’ve ever featured here, though. [...]

By: Tzetzes

Tzetzes — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:07:36 +0000

Bitchin’!

By: ej_pez

ej_pez — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:29:09 +0000

ALL HAIL SPIELBERG!!

Hoodlumman on January 23, 2007 at 3:23 PM

Don’t you mean, “ALL HAIL DICK”?

Of course, not many can get away with yelling that one out.

By: Spicy Banderas » Blog Archive » Spicy, Hot Air Meets Hot, Spicy Banderas

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:55:18 +0000

[...] Sorry, Hot Air. We didn’t notice what else you put in this post. We only cared about this opening line about Fox News’ Julie Banderas: So hot it was almost difficult to watch. Julie-Banderas-in-a-plunging-neckline hot. [...]

By: shermacman

shermacman — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:01:18 +0000

Julie-Banderas-in-a-plunging-neckline hot.
Target date: 2150 or so.

I don’t want to see that… her neckline would have to plunge to the floor to keep up with her drooping titties.

By: Egfrow

Egfrow — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:52:52 +0000

VinceP1974,

And what is someone supposed to do with this? Plot maps all day long? That kinda gets old after a while.

An IBM executives once said "why would regular people need a computer?" Bill Gates once said "no one will ever need more than 600K or RAM" This is called a disruptive technology. Who needs more than 2400 Baud of bandwidth or why should it always be connected all the time?

By: Egfrow

Egfrow — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:46:42 +0000

It's actually pretty unique. It's not a standard touch screen. It uses light differential and not electricty to determine touch. Standard touch screen only allow one cursor or finger. More than 20 hands and 100 fingers can all be tracked independently and in real time. It's a little more sophisticated than updated electronics. It's not LCD by the way.

By: Confederate

Confederate — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:55:54 +0000

This is nothing new. I have been in the computer industry from more then 25 years, and touch screens are old news. The only thing new is the software, and a large LCD display. Sure they made changed in the electronics, but that’s bound to happen!

By: Freelancer

Freelancer — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:36:41 +0000

And what is someone supposed to do with this?

Some future FPS-geek who barely makes it through basic training will be commanding an entire unmanned tank battalion from a workstation with stuff like this. A couple of robotic recon units to provide Low-Light TV, IR, and thermal imagery of ground details combined with hourly updated satellite imagery to provide a fully rendered model of a local battlespace that can be controlled just like a video game.

Beyond applications of that nature, or for advanced classroom/demonstration media, you’re right, it doesn’t suit most office-style application much better than a classic workstation. Oh, and that USB thing will never catch on.

By: omegaram

omegaram — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 05:54:31 +0000

Wow! I want one, and with a T1 fat pipe to get the response shown on this demo. Wow!

By: VinceP1974

VinceP1974 — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:20:24 +0000

And what is someone supposed to do with this? Plot maps all day long? That kinda gets old after a while.

By: Kevin M

Kevin M — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:36:19 +0000

“Believe it or not, the clip doesn’t do it justice.”

I believe it. I can’t even get it to play :(

By: PRCalDude

PRCalDude — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:30:04 +0000

I’m underwhelmed.

By: a4g

a4g — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:03:49 +0000

All I saw was a lot of zooming in and out and then moving stuff around.

I can already do that three times as fast with my wheel mouse, while all the time relaxing in my chair with a beer. No flapping my arms around like a freakin’ idiot, no getting peanut butter and buffalo wing sauce all over my display.

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:59:53 +0000

I could sure use of of those in my yearbook class!

By: Egfrow

Egfrow — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:14:50 +0000

Here is the Schools original Project site.

By: Egfrow

Egfrow — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:10:58 +0000

For those geeks that want to know how this works. This technology was covered about a year ago on Engadget. It's called Frustrated Total Internal Reflection Display. It's all projection basesd. It was created at NYU.

By: thirteen28

thirteen28 — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:25:37 +0000

I’ll be impressed when he shows how his approach tackles the blue screen of death.

Dusty on January 23, 2007 at 4:45 PM

Sony has new technology that will use haiku poetry to deal with that for their Vaio machines:

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

A sampling of other error messages they will have:

A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that.

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.

By: Watcher

Watcher — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:23:25 +0000

And I’m guessing they will find a way to charge hundreds of thousands of dollars for this stuff.

By: Watcher

Watcher — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:20:24 +0000

So, in the future, all computer applications will be weird looking 3d models and windows that fly all over the place but don’t actually do anything?

By: CyberCipher

CyberCipher — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:44:06 +0000

2050 huh? … or even 2020 huh?
I hope for the sake of all you youngsters out there that western civilization still exists in 43 years…or even in 13 years. If not, the only thing that you kiddies may have to move around on your 300″ video screens is close-up photographs of Mookie’s mug, in addition to the listings du jour of the officially approved prayers (inspired by the Quran, of course). If I remember right, they had someting akin to 300″ video screens in George Orwell’s 1984, didn’t they?
(Sorry to rain on your parade AllahP.)

By: Nethicus

Nethicus — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:26:15 +0000

It’ll be pretty awesome until you smash your screen with your Wii controller. Or you break your computer in anger when you’re organizing your raid at MC and someone yells “LEEROY JENKINS!” and agros an impossible number of mobs.

By: maintenanceman

maintenanceman — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:24:31 +0000

ehk

it wont load for me.

I would be Angry Christian!!

By: Tim Burton

Tim Burton — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:09:08 +0000

This has been in development for over 2 years now. There are at least 2 other videos showing his progress.

By: Bill's Bites

Bill's Bites — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:53:49 +0000

Video: The future of computing…

Video: The future of computing Allahpundit So hot it was almost difficult to watch. Julie-Banderas-in-a-plunging-neckline hot. We’re on the cusp of a golden age, my friends. All we need to make it happen are affordable 300″ LCD monitors with touch…