The future of Human-Computer Interaction
The video below demonstrates the power of multi-touch, the technology that apple put into the iPhone, as it should be used. It is cool in a phone, but when used as the interface for an entire computer, it has the potential to change the way we interact with and think about computers. If you have ever seen Minority Report, this is it. This is the future.
I saw the “video below on the O’Reilly Mac Dev website.”:http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/02/multitouch_one_step_further.html One comment made on that site that I do agree with is that as cool as this video is, we still need to solve the problem of how to efficient enter text. I am not sure talking to our computers is the entire answer, but it is probably half. I wonder if hand writing recognition is the second half. The problem with that is that most people can type faster then they can write.
I can’t wait to have this interface on a desktop or tablet computer sometime soon.