May 30th, 2008
I don’t use a mouse. I use the trackpad on my MacBook or a trackball when I’m at the desktop, but Bill Gates thinks all these things are going they way of DOS. He sees a future where waving ones hands over a sensor is the way to interface with your computer. He stops short [...]
May 28th, 2008
Microsoft seems to think the future of the computer doesn’t lie in traditional keyboards but in gesture-based controls, such as those used on the iPhone and its own Surface device. And the next version of Windows, for now just called Windows 7 or Vienna, will have much touchscreen and gesture support built in.
While we’re still [...]
May 23rd, 2008
Final Product // ATTIGO TT from Scott Hobbs on Vimeo.
This, the ATTIGO TT, is one of the best things I’ve ever seen, and I really mean that. Most of the time, meh. But this! It’s a touchscreen turntable created by one Scott Hobbs, a student at Dundee University. About the size of a regular turntable, [...]
May 15th, 2008
Today’s Top Posts:
Android vs. LiMo: What’s the difference?
From all of us at CG…
Samsung F400 music phone: It’s good because it’s Bang & Olufsen
T-Mobile officially adds text message blocking
Daily Crunch: Flight of the Touchwall Edition
Atari to sell Wii Fit clone
Hackers will track conference attendees’ movements using RFID
CrunchGear’s handy iPhone rumor confirmator
Fujitsu U2010 Atom-based UMPC will [...]
May 15th, 2008
It’s safe to say we’re approaching the top of the technology tree when it comes to mice and keyboards. As apps get richer and interactive devices become more intuitive and ubiquitous, the mouse/keyboard combo is becoming more and more a niche control scheme. It’s like upgrading your zerglings: you can do it as much as [...]
May 15th, 2008
Rocketman jumps from plane with jet-pack wings
Michael Arrington gets a full hands on with the Touchwall
Robot overlords taking to classical music
Atair’s EXO-Wing and AeroSuit on display at The Met
British town to run fiber-optic cables through sewers
May 14th, 2008
In this exclusive and actually very cool video, Michael gets up close and personal with the Microsoft Touchwall. The smoothness is uncanny and the double taps work just like another well known UI — if this is the future, freeze me now and wake me up in about ten years.
Check out more Touchwall coverage here.
May 14th, 2008
Bill Gates will demo a new multi-touch computer and interface today called TouchWall at the Microsoft CEO Summit in Redmond.
TouchWall refers to the touch screen hardware setup itself; the corresponding software to run TouchWall, which is built on a standard version of Vista, is called Plex.
TouchWall and Plex are superficially similar to Microsoft Surface, a [...]
