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- WiseWeasel, on 09/04/2008, -1/+24New Apple patent: How to annoy people sharing mass-transit with you (or any other public space).
Person sitting next to me in the airplane: Computer, select paragraph. Computer, copy. Computer, paste. No, don't call the Waste Department for me! CANCEL! CANCEL! COPY, PASTE! ***** YOU COMPUTER!
Me: (picks up bludgeoning tool) - allaboutdatiki, on 09/05/2008, -0/+22I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
- inactive, on 09/05/2008, -0/+11Steve Jobs continues to use his time machine to steal from future Steve Jobs.
- batmanz, on 09/05/2008, -0/+9...From all the fapping you're going to do.
- batmanz, on 09/05/2008, -2/+10Actually Microsoft has had hand gesture recognition in development for a while now.
Then again, I'm not sure what your comment was trying to say. - larryjr88, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5Apple seriously needs a new hand model.
- Dumbledorito, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5"Copy."
"Dialing [Mother In Law]"
"PASTE!"
"Self-destruct sequence engaged." - diotro, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5Apple's new patent gives HEC (Hand Eye Coordination) a whole new meaning.
- inactive, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5And then how to annoy everyone:
Patent every possible combination of touchscreen technologies not commonly used already. - pcayuela, on 09/04/2008, -0/+5My fingers are going to be stiff...
- inactive, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4That's what happened to that guy in Canada
- braveryonions, on 09/04/2008, -0/+4I don't know about this hand reading thing... It seems like people would make accidental gestures. And if the hand reading camera is a regular webcam, then the lighting could ruin it.
- santaliqueur, on 09/05/2008, -2/+5Control-C is easy. Command-C is a pain in the ass.
/s - dist0rti0n, on 09/05/2008, -0/+3Yeah because I want to be *that* guy sitting in the coffee shop talking out loud to my computer...
- jleems86, on 09/05/2008, -1/+4dude, i just read that entire thing and cane only say one thing in response:
(dramatic pause for emphasis) wtf? - locojones, on 09/05/2008, -2/+4Is Control-C and Control-V really so difficult that you have to invent individual finger related gestures, dual webcams, and motion sensors to cut and paste? Seriously?
- neio, on 09/05/2008, -1/+3I'm a Mac user.
I would feel like a freak talking to my mac in a coffee shop, people would start to think all mac users are nuts.
Come on, I dont want to be "That Guy".
(but it's still cool) - mike9173, on 09/04/2008, -1/+3i think that its pretty cool
instead of apple making a whole touch screen computer
they could just add this to their new macbook line-up - fucayama, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2Dave, why are you looking at me like that?
- iericg, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2As far as voice commands go... you can do that now with OSX & Applescipt. It's a little weak but it works.
I always thought voice commands where cool until I actually used it on my Mac. You lose the thrill after about five minutes. I would rather push a button than speak a command. Then again I would rather push a button than have to move a mouse...
As far as the multi-touch interface goes... it sounds cool but it better be bug free. - thedragon4453, on 09/05/2008, -1/+3You know, I get the appeal of voice technology, but seriously, everyone just needs to give up on it. The only place it would be useful is on a cell phone in a car. Pretty much everything else I think of is either horribly annoying, or just not that useful. I don't want to talk to my computer. Perhaps that's the nerd in me.
For that matter, the same goes for touch technology. With the exception the iPhone and a handful of other devices, touch tech is infuriating. Touch the place you think you want, it misses. Jab at the screen. Keep jabbing. Got it. Repeat a few hundred times. I do not want Minority Report computers either.
Lets face it, the keyboard and mouse are pretty good. Why spend so much time reinventing the wheel. - BossKey, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1I'll end up disappointed that the "Force Sensors" aren't going to give me the powers I thought they would.
- dougbarrett, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1It's like sign language. They'll probably call it "iSign" technology
- Dumbledorito, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1A TSA screener?
- megaton, on 09/05/2008, -2/+3Saying "Copy/Paste" to do such tasks is obviously ridiculous, at least for anyone who knows the keyboard shortcuts. (You'd be surprised how many folks don't!)
However, what I'd love to see is the ability to "pinch" and "paste" content from one device to another. Reading a webpage in your phone and wanna transfer it to your computer? "Pinch" the URL on your phone and "spread" it out onto the address bar of your browser on your computer. Copy some music to your ipod? Select the songs and pinch the selection on your computer, and spread to paste it onto your ipod.
It's not much unlike the similar functionality of Surface, however, you don't need an intermediate device to select and transfer the data. (Let alone a 400 lbs. table.)
And THAT is the problem with the current data transfer paradigms. You have to go through 20 unnecessary steps--plug in a cable, open a transfer application, select what you want to transfer, say "go" or "sync", wait... and good luck trying to transfer data that ISN'T stored in a file!--where it'd be so much more intuitive and easier to just "pinch" and "paste".
If you want some actual justification to put touchscreens on all displays, I think this is it. - inactive, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1doesn't matter. by the time it comes out, apple will already have plans to release something that scans DNA and has artificial intelligence.
- JazzClutchkick, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1Wait a second the iphone currently can barely cut and paste what makes you think they can do this?
- ohmySHIT, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1I'm gonna look like *****' Tom Cruise from Minority Report using this new technology! Minus the scientology.
- jamaph, on 09/05/2008, -1/+2And the longest pointless post award goes to...
- inactive, on 09/05/2008, -3/+4This is total hipocrisy. Remember, Apple is the company that thinks two mouse buttons are "too complicated" for its users, and refuses to put a right button on its laptops. But somehow it's OK to expect users to guess at multi-finger swipes and gestures, which (unlike buttons and keys) are undiscoverable and require users to read documentation. Every other manufacturer puts a key on their keyboards (no matter how small the computer) labeled "Delete", which is different from the Backspace key. Not Apple. There's no Delete key on Apple laptops (there's only a Backspace key that's mislabeled "Delete"); somehow users are expected to know a two-handed function-key combo to simply delete a character.
And the highly touted multitouch has been shown, for years now, doing two things: rotating and zooming. What a bunch of crap. Remember how, for a year, there was no way to delete more than one E-mail at a time on the iPhone? Wouldn't multitouch be ideal for selecting a range of items in a list? Yet Apple fails utterly to imagine and implement this truly useful enhancement.
It's time to end the unfounded fawning over Apple's UIs and start calling Apple on its failure to fix glaring basic flaws, and on their spiteful, anti-user rejection of good ideas that were invented elsewhere. They need to stop dicking around with gimmicks and bring their UIs into modern times. - inactive, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1Mr Gates, what were you told about getting yourself worked up commenting on Digg? Don't make me sedate you again...
- Zippo, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1Ahh, Darth Jobs... the force is strong with this one.
- drapelyk, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1Mix it with something like this http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-design ...
and no one will ever buy anything anti-Apple again.
Imagine touching something and thinking copy, or move to my photo folder and it happens. That will be pretty darn cool. - alexhouse, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1Wow. Force-sensitive.
- Virgule, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1Yes indeed. Just enable 'mouse gestures' feature for a taste of what its like. Start timer to know how quickly this thing will drive you nuts..
:P - WiseWeasel, on 09/05/2008, -1/+1Who needs keyboards and mice? Real men use punch cards!
I'm just waiting for the mind-reading implant interface to my Apple sex robot... - dizzy113, on 09/05/2008, -1/+1I think we are on the verge of new technology revolution. I know things always get better over time, but I feel like there are going to be some big break thoroughs in the next few years that are going to be game changing and this is a good example of it.
- nonsequitur668, on 09/05/2008, -4/+1The time for debate is over. We need to stop talking and start acting. Better yet, we need to urge lawmakers to pass a nonbinding resolution affirming that Apple never misses an opportunity to indulge its preoccupation with its alleged victimization. If you disagree with my claim that the mess that Apple has left behind is sometimes hard to see but eventually will be impossible to ignore, then read no further. What is the milieu in which disingenuous polluters inculcate the hermeneutics of suspicion in otherwise open-minded people? It is the underworld of conspiracy theory, a subculture in which uncouth, satanic sybarites share fantasies of fighting heroically against a huge conspiracy that will depressurize the frail vessel of human hopes faster than you can say "histomorphologically".
Apple avers that once it has approved of something it can't possibly be beer-guzzling. As you can no doubt determine from comments like that, facts and Apple are like oil and water. Didn't Apple tell its idolators that it wants to permit wild Luddites to rise to positions of leadership and authority? Did it first give any thought to what would happen if it did? Of course, that question is ridiculous -- as ridiculous as its uncongenial declamations.
Apple has been trying for some time to convince people that everything is happy and fine and good. Don't believe its hype! Apple has just been offering that line as a means to increase subservience to its monolithic engine of propagandism. The bottom line is that Apple is a bear of very little brain, and long words bother it. - sandaboy, on 09/05/2008, -4/+1Apple is usually the company that gets it right...but I know what you mean :).
- TVega, on 09/04/2008, -11/+0I noticed this wasn't a Microsoft idea.
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