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by meryoyo

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I read an interesting article today about how 10 years ago we probably didnt imagine to have touchscreens as a standard for phones today. Then the article mentioned the next development, which is touchless devices. Think Kinect, but then for phones I must say, it sounds attractive for in the car. What do you guys think?

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by nicknielsen

Maybe by then, voice recognition software will be able to discern actual words in spite of the accent.

by ansugisalas

lip reading... no more sounding like a lunatic while typing.
Not looking like a loon was a lost cause already...

by locolobo

I always pictured Star Trek TNGs holo deck as a desirable goal. Sure the p0rn industry would be 50% plus of the market. Just like the internet now.

But consider the other possibilities if you could involve yourself body and mind into the illusion. Teaching, exercising, etc. would be revolutionized.

I know. I must be smoking something. Maybe it's one of my servers. :) My new workplace reminds me of the movie "Das Boot" not Star Trek! :(

by hal 9000

That is where a Socket is inserted into the back of the Head of the user and you have a direct connection from the device to the Users Brain.

The down side of this is that many users could become a Walking Memory Device to be used as someone requires and not entirely at their own decisions.

Of course the next step after that is doing away with the Socket and just taking over another's Upper Brain Functions.

Ain't Technology Grand?

Col

by dogknees

I was thinking the other day that our minds are becoming no more then indexes to web-pages.

Not that this is a new effect. An engineering lecturer told me 30 years ago not to try and remember every formula and constant, but to learn where to look them up and to always check when doing something critical.

by tigger_two

I will believe that there is a value to them. For now, I have a stylus for every touchscreen I use.

I want to know why my cat can use the touch screen competently and I can't. Granted, she can't really spell, but she can at least work the touch screen.

by hal 9000

And the touch screen on it is great. You don't need the supplied Stylus as it just works.

Been like that for several years now first on a IRC2550 and now on the new one that I got for this place, only been there a couple of months now after the 5 Year Contract ran out on the older one.

Col

by nicknielsen

I support a bunch of the X652 MFPs and the touchscreen on those just works.

I also support scales with touchscreens. The older models (early 2000s design) just work. The newer model, not so much.

by tigger_two

Is failing eyesight more than anything. That and letting my fingernails grow too long.

The touch screen on my video camera doesn't require the stylus, even though I have it attached if I needed it. I use a stylus exclusively on my Touch which isn't a bad thing. I HAVE to use a stylus for the Garmin... which is irritating. The screen on my printer is just easier with a stylus because of where it is positioned.

I still want an iPad. *sigh*

by nicknielsen

Both OEMs designed their end user touch screens for fingertip use. Most of the targets on the screen measure at least a half-inch on each side. The smallest target I've seen on either are the arrows on the Lexmark menu scroll bars at about 3/8" by 1/2".

The technology used for touch detection also makes a big difference. The biggest issue with the newer model of scale I support is that it requires screen calibration, then doesn't hold that calibration. ?:| (scratches head...)

by nexs

Smellovision. Instead of 'TeeVee' it'll be 'SmeeVee'!
Beware of the National Geographic channel!

by charliespencer

I think it was the late '70s or early '80s as a gimmick. I've completely forgotten the program, just how they did it. They distributed free cards with a dozen or so numbered 'Scratch 'n' Sniff' spots on them. When a number appeared on the screen, you were supposed to activate the corresponding spot. I recall they actually did call it 'Smellovision'.

Oh, here it is. Scroll down to the 'Legacy' paragraph and check the MTV reference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell-O-Vision

by bhushan67

I think technology based on emotion likely to be great invention.in next few years mobiles and computers may work on human emotions.The devices capable to capture the emotions of user and work on the basis of that.

by eniveld

Excerpted from my blog posting on the future of digital communications at http://artofbuildingsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/03/social-networks-and-future-of-digital.html

* Complex hand gestures not requiring direct touch
* 3D user interfaces will begin to evolve, eventually not requiring special eye-wear.
* Cheap, flexible display devices (think paper)
* Haptics eventually evolves into remotely touching objects
* We'll stop using screens so much because artificially intelligent agents will be used that can not only recognize our voices but also recognize facial gestures and vocal inflection.
* Immersive reality will directly project 3D augmented reality either onto special glasses, contact lenses, directly into the eye, and then eventually (drum roll...) direct cybernetic hardwired connection to the brain.
* Sound induction will allow us to privately project sound directly into your ears (and eventually directly into your brain), not requiring you to hold a phone up to your ear or wear clunky headphones.

David

by nicknielsen

If you're serious about this, the first gesture you'll need to teach the system is the universal cancel signal...

by nicknielsen

With very few exceptions, all of my exams were open-book. The intent was to give you the basic theory, then allow you to do the research to expand on that theory to solve a problem. But these were classes in the physical sciences: chemistry, organic chemistry, physics, chemical analysis, etc.

by rayfoxxe

Unlike the basic concepts like neural linking or image projection or hand gestures.
I have a much different concept I'd like to share.

1. Light Solidification Technology -
Making use of the air molecules by a device that projects the image of an object or a person and solidifying the air molecules around the image by compressing them to make a real solid object appear before you which you can interface with. Also a good concept for 3D printing and maybe the next evolution of holograms. Such technology may come around after they've fully developed 3D hologram imaging in maybe the next 20 years or so. The only downside to this is, it takes a lot of power to make the device create the light solidification process, then the size of the device will be another problem and how to miniaturize it for portability, and then there's the development of such technology, which would be the hardest challenge yet.

2. Mind Power -
By the use of electrical waves to emulate the same electrical activity in the brain, we could incorporate devices which reads the electrical activity of the brain and make use of this for telecommunications and wireless interface with just using the brain and electronic waves then passing this information onto another device which receives the transmission wirelessly. Not only would this transfer information and data, it can also send a living thing's feelings and emotions as well, emulated by the device and lets the receiver experience it. But then, brain hacking and privacy intrusion comes into mind with this concept (much like the concept in Ghost in the Shell), as well as the fact that this will make use of implanting devices into the human body or brain just to make this happen.

3. Matter Assembler -
This is actually another sci-fi concept, I know, but this wouldn't be the one where they can use for teleportation. I wanted it to be another concept for future 3D printers as well as industrial manufacturing. This is also like my concept of the Light Solidification technique, only it's much different, it's like a printer and you feed it with raw materials for it to create what it needs to print/assemble. Making use of a device that fuses atoms, molecules, and particles together to make up the object that it needs to produce or copy. Yet again, another very difficult thing to make into reality, but in the future, it might not be as hard as it sounds.

by hal 9000

Well the Replicator at least and while it may be called something different it only requires energy not any other [i]Raw Materials[/i] to work.

Of course currently the down side is the amount of energy required. ;)

So until we have a much more efficient Energy Source things like this will remain curiosities.

Col

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