What a tremendous idea for a blog Danny. I find myself thinking up a ton of these little gems, throughout my day, with no place to put them for safekeeping. We have sophisticated voice recognition technologies. We have Flash to provide rich, interactive, visual experiences for exploring data. We have touch-screen interfaces. Why are we still keyboard-bound?
You have to admit, the keyboard is a rather outmoded piece of work. I'm looking forward to the day when alternative ways to interface with computers, enhanced by advanced data visualization techniques get us off our dependency on keyboards. When recording information is a simple matter to talking to the computer, imagine the impact on human productivity. Or when exploring data is freed from the technological limitations of the point-and-click mouse. One interesting benefit of this development would be that people might return to writing like they talk, and talking like they write, reversing some of the impact keyboards had on people's communication skills.
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Thanks Ty :) To add to your idea, I imagine a small 'keychain' which in tandem with your cellular, interacts with your Instant messaging platform, so if you walk away from your desk, peoples IMs go to your phone with minimal effort. or so, if you walk away from your desk for a moment, it puts your away message on through an RFID chip in this 'keychain'
also: JediPad, the most original rethinking of a handheld computer interface since the Wiimote. It's got seven pressure sensitive ThinkPad-style trackpoints plus internal gyros, so you can move the cursor by waving but change the speed and accuracy of the movement as needed, by pressing down on a trackpoint. There's a more intuitive circular pop-up menu system to go along with it for faster navigation. Sam's even built a crazy orange gyro hat for additional motion tracking (or else some high-tech form of "big pimpin')
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a2FXf1AZIU
http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/12/JediPad_1.jpg
http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/12/JediPad_2.jpg
I agree that it will be something if we remove the keyboard or just the number pad to work on our calculation. We a lots of new gadgets now a days and hope to see one just the same as the one you are describing.
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