One of the greatest barriers to using the computer is the keyboard.
It is the clunkiest of all the interfaces simply because it’s mechanical. These days even so-called hard drives can be entirely digital with no moving parts.
But the qwerty legacy was never meant for the digital age.
It's a contraption and I don’t think it should be improved.
I think it should be scrapped. Chinese typists will agree with me.
Here’s a brief description of my rechargeable light-powered computer of the future. It's simple. Surely the technology can't be too far fetched.
If I cough when I unfold my computer it logs me on.
It only responds to my voice, and can tell the difference between me talking and a high quality recording of me talking. And it doesn’t respond to a high quality recording of me talking either.
I don’t type what I want it to do. I tell it.
Touch sensitive screen? Yes. It is perfected to a high degree of sensitivity and usability. I can draw on it with a finger or a pencil.
The screen looks like paper when it’s in bright light; backlighting when in shade. It automatically adjusts to the light levels with vocal override when needed. Images and texts look as they would on a high quality magazine – matt effect, low sheen, holograph.
Unrolled I can use it to scan a magazine by directly laying it on top. Well folded, I can fit it comfortably in my inside pocket.
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Hi Ken,
Sign me up for one of those. What a mind!
Here's a invite for where we are now, if I didn't send it yet:
Photo Fridays is up and running:
Join us with a photo and some words.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/photofridays/
Bonnie
Kia Ora Bonnie
When the first one comes off the production line you can have it.
Now about Photo Fridays: I have tried through all sorts of exhaustive processes, created my Yahoo account, attempted to sign in and got through to more requests for me to sign in. But try as I might I cannot get through to any spot in your Flickr account that permits me to either leave a comment or put up a picture.
If there is a way I would have found it by now. There must be something wrong with my connection or is there is something I'm missing - a brain perhaps?
Ka kite
Wow Ken. I bet once you bring that out, the only thing we hobbits here at TCS will see of you is a dust cloud when you ride away on electronic shadowfax highway...
My brother had the idea of a mobile phone that projects a keyboard and also a data show onto any suface, but voice is even better than typing.
Cheers.
Kunterbunt123
Kia ora Kunterbunt hobbit from TCS!
Just say the word - any word and that'll do. Voice recognition (VR) is the future way. Of that I'm certain. How else can the computer easily ascertain who you are than by asking a series of (simple) questions and listening to the replies. It's not just the words with VR. It's the sound of the words and what's said.
Also the quick response to a series of questions would be easy if it's necessary for more information to be obtained about the user for the identity to be obtained unequivocally.
Maybe your brother and I should go into business :-)
Ka kite
from Middle-earth
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