Zaap
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- Jun 12, 2008
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What's funny to me is some people actually think that waving your hands all over a desktop monitor is the wave of the future, vs. a more logical interface like a mouse.Sure they are, and doing them all by jabbing the display with your finger is the future.
I'd invite those that think so, to right now lift their arms up and poke around all over their desktop monitor. Great. Now do that for 8 hours straight. That's YOUR future maybe, not mine.
Moving your wrist a few millimeters to travel all over the screen is infinitely more efficient. And until human hands become invisible, you're not obstructing your own view. For more precision between hand and screen, there's the pen-tablet like the Cintiq.
But then again, Wacom actually understands human interface design. Their latest tablets have a feature where just the tiniest flick of your thumb calls up a floating on-screen menu that gives you access to more information in a tiny space than Metro does spewing kludge across multiple monitors. Move your thumb and it fades out, out of your way. The stuff I want to use in the future will be designed by people that actually pay attention to what people want, and actually know what the hell they are doing to achieve it.
So sure, there's a place for touch interfaces on desktops. But let's face it, it'll be blown out of the water by the REAL future interface- direct retina-tracking control!