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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
but... but.. .but... did you watch the demo on youtube ?????
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well there's your problem ; try watching it with just *normal* eyes, so you're not distracted by ocular discomfort.
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Originally Posted by DixieGal
Groovy video, but I keep trying to visualize it in the workplace. It just seems sort of awkward to have the onscreen keyboard, unless there is a bendy elbow in it or something. The thought of typing straight ahead makes my carpal tunnels ache! Would it allow notebooks to be significantly lighter if they didn't have the physical keyboard? There would still have to be the CPU innards, and a cover of xome sort to protect it.
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actually, i agree that it probably wouldn't make for very comfortable *typing*, however y'all seem to be forgetting that you can do a lot of things with a computer, and only some of them require a keyboard (or rather, some of them require a keyboard / mouse because those are the input peripherals we currently have available, but they are not actually the best adapted ones for those tasks).
for example, i am a graphic designer ; i work with images all the time, either photos (in photoshop) or images i draw myself (illustrator). i also create websites, for which i make maquettes in illustrator. also i make animations in flash, which usually requires drawing elements and then manipulating them to animate them.
for the moment, i use keyboard shortcuts to access / modify tools and tool behavior, and a mouse or drawing pad to interact with them. but i would *love* to be able to sort through a stack of photos by moving them around with my fingers, rather than dragging / minimizing / closing / opening windows ; i would *love* to be able to creat flash animations simply by moving my symbol where i want it and mimicking the animating with my fingers, while the interface tracked these mouvements and interpreted them into keyframes. it would be amazing to be able to manipulate a gui i was creating for a website manually, sliding different elements around, resizing them on the fly, changing a navigation element from vertical to horizontal just by sliding my finger in a different direction...
in my personal workplace, the keyboard is good for writing code, ok, but it's incredibly awkward for most of the things i do, and i only use it because it's the only thing available (for now...). so i suspect, when you say you don't see any practical applications (like in the workplace), it's because you just haven't imagined what kind of things you could do with them, or alternately because in your job you really do only need to be able to type, in which case you're right ; for *you*, it might not be a good practical solution. but that's just you.
(i could also mention things like music, research, and probably plenty of applications we haven't even invented yet, but will, once we have the peripherals to make them possible...)