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- amitait, on 12/05/2008, -4/+30How can a touch screen can be touchless? If it's touchless, then he can't be touched...therefore...it's not a touch screen.
- Blizaine, on 12/05/2008, -2/+19if they could find a way to incorporate lasers, this could be the perfect product.
- dawgma, on 12/05/2008, -0/+12Woah boy. Who said this was replacing the keyboard?
"...which would allow certain functions to be invoked..." - u8myfoood, on 12/05/2008, -7/+18What's wrong with old fashion tactile feel?
There is something about typing on a keyboard consisting of buttons, rather than a flat unmoving surface/in mid-air?
And how would you touch type, without being able to even touch? - linagee, on 12/05/2008, -1/+10"detect the presence of one or more fingers, body parts or other objects hovering above a touch-sensitive surface."
Body parts? - gllopc, on 12/05/2008, -2/+10The Windows tablet devices can do this with the pen. You can just hover the pen over the screen and the mouse will move.
- thesmartpenguin, on 12/05/2008, -4/+11You would eventually learn. It's the nature of the beast that is technology. New things come out, you learn how to use them. Of course people will always piss and moan about how the old technology is better but sometimes we all have to move on.
- nardo510, on 12/05/2008, -0/+7you can already do that.
- garths, on 12/05/2008, -0/+7Good idea, but they are a bit behind of the curve. Microsoft Research has been doing a bunch of great work on hover-based interfaces, both from the perspective of developing the hardware and designing the interactions. The MS system is better as well, as they are using a grid of tiny cameras instead of simply IR sensors. Cameras give you much richer information, and you can do more with it.
Still, I hope Apple moves forward with the idea and makes something of it. - i4ybrid, on 12/05/2008, -3/+9Bye Bye battery life.
- Tevas, on 12/05/2008, -3/+9Soon you won't even have to be in the same room as your computer to use it.
- proxicity, on 12/05/2008, -1/+6don't dare mention that apple may have copied, borrowed, or otherwise overlapped another technology, you will get dugg down.
oh, btw, MS already did this and its working...
http://www.gearlog.com/2008/10/microsofts_sidesigh ...
but then again its the evil empire, not the anointed one. - Falldog, on 12/05/2008, -3/+8Wake me up when I can call someone by swinging my ***** wildly.
- logicalnoise, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5as it's been said MS and nokia have already got this working Apple is a few years late on this one.
- LOGNATR, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5But it's not by Apple, so there won't be any fanboys there to flog each other about it.
- sexybobo, on 12/05/2008, -0/+4in the future? that's how i right all my comments now.
- Serapthi, on 12/05/2008, -1/+5Isn't this kinda like Microsoft SideSight?
- Mystlyfe, on 12/05/2008, -0/+4The irony here is that it seems like they're attempting to use this to save battery life by powering down various computing functions and areas of the touchscreen that aren't about to be triggered.
- phantom_mullet, on 12/05/2008, -1/+5Damn, I way underestimated Steve Jobs' vendetta against the button.
- Kirpernicus, on 12/05/2008, -1/+5We're heading towards "Minority Report" type technology here. Cool.
- MacParrot, on 12/05/2008, -0/+3Being 12 and so very stupid must be rough on you
- jsmithers, on 12/05/2008, -3/+6APPLE COPYING NOKIA (a response to those lamers who think it happens the other way):
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/01/08/nokia-s6 ...
Yes, it's ultrasonics rather than IR, but the end result is the same.
And lets not hear any more lameness about Nokia copying Apple.
Apple/iPhone fanboys you may now digg me down because I dared to say something not supporting Apple :) - pattyman5000, on 12/05/2008, -0/+3@sexybobo That explains the typos.
- greendalek, on 12/05/2008, -0/+3"For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive--you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure, of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program."
--From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, 1979 - LOGNATR, on 12/05/2008, -1/+4Could your head be any further up Steve Jobs' ass?
- MacParrot, on 12/05/2008, -0/+3Doing that usually does call someone...
The Police - hurrayforschool, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2Soon you won't even have to use it.
- noahhoward, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2Your PC uses batteries? The article gave me the impression that this was not for portable devices.
- inajeep, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2You got it rumplestilkson.
- tschau, on 12/05/2008, -1/+3Definitely sounding like it, yes. When I started college, myself and my peers (approximately 110 of us) all had to purchase mandatory PowerBooks. I saw so many monitor connections mess up, hinges break, pixels die, batteries fail, hard drives fail, etc over the course of a few years. Some of that was mistreatment, but a lot wasn't.
I loved that mac, don't get me wrong. They're just not the infallible machines you make them out to be. - cotroxell, on 12/05/2008, -1/+3or maybe they just really dislike homophobic bigots
- cawpin, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2With a comment like that, I'd just call him Rumple Stilt.
- pigg123, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2its powered by dreams and imagination.
- cr12345, on 12/05/2008, -1/+3That's what she said.
- swimtwobirds, on 12/05/2008, -0/+1what?
- username7410, on 12/05/2008, -0/+1Yes, minority report interface here we come!
- sLydE, on 12/05/2008, -0/+1Think of the porn!
- swimtwobirds, on 12/05/2008, -0/+1fair play to minority report, mind you,
spielberg had the right boffins giving him the spiel. - asforme, on 12/05/2008, -0/+1It's part of Steve Job's war on buttons. First the mouse buttons, now the keyboard.
- celotil, on 12/05/2008, -0/+1Sounds like a cool idea for working with 3D stuff, especially software that has the capability to "sculpt" what you want to make.
- efice32, on 12/05/2008, -0/+1Iron Man style...I like it
- senmu, on 12/05/2008, -0/+1FTA: "To detect the location of touch events at different positions relative to the panel, multiple IR receivers can be placed along the edges touch-screen's blackened display bezel, like those on the latest iMacs and MacBooks, the company says."
- JohnnyDIGGme, on 12/06/2008, -0/+1iThoughtAboutItAndItHappened.
- se7envii, on 12/06/2008, -0/+1Boobs
- sexybobo, on 12/05/2008, -0/+1Sega Activator any one?
- Finalreminder, on 12/05/2008, -1/+2And you'd know how it works because your privy to MS industrial secrets?
STFU pretender.
Diesel, LPG, Petrol, Electric, steam, potatoes...a car is a car whatever it runs on - tride, on 12/06/2008, -0/+1Having used infrared touch screens i assume some of the limitations which make it a poor choice for touchscreens will also apply here... any kind of dirt will impair the optical sensors, especially if the sensors are on a flat surface. my experience is they fail much faster then other types of touch systems (i.e. resistive) because the optics get clogged with dust and particles.
- erasermcfleafly, on 12/05/2008, -0/+1My bwain hurts!
- PhailQuail, on 12/06/2008, -0/+1Just when you thought having a lack of tactile response was bad...
- swimtwobirds, on 12/05/2008, -0/+1they are generally more reliable, particularly
in the os/hardware sense of things, the degree
to which xp puffs to a halt over 18-24months and the mandatory
re-install is a bit mad. apple towers in particular tend
to keep going for really long periods of time. -
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