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- Broadway, on 10/12/2007, -2/+52Didn't he have to press a button to activate the voice control?
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -11/+56If it's connected to the internet you can always ask the remote: "where can I buy a Mac?"
- mikeroySoft, on 10/19/2009, -2/+31There was certainly more than 0 buttons on that remote...
they had to push one to turn on the speech listener, firstly.
It was like a normal remote otherwise (in terms of the number of buttons) - ani-pockdotnet, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30If Intel makes it, I'm going to lose my voice over things like "Turn off the lights"...
- dimplemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Yeah, no kidding, I thought he pressed a button several times before he got this thing to work?
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Seriously though the real funny part was the fact that he had the cheek to say to the audience to clap louder becuase he put in so much effort! Isn't that the point, he put in too much effort!!!
- ani-pockdotnet, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18Uh hi, please click on the story link and then hit yourself with this hammer. *Give penguinix a hammer*
- zirtbow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Who is going to want to make something so crappy you have to repeat yourself several times for it to understand you. I probably would eventually end up throwing the darn thing and easily switch over to a normal 'button' remote.
- Terc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Yeah, thanks but no thanks. I think Apple wins this time.
- coolshoes, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12What idiot decided the number of buttons is the only way to measure ease of use for a remote?
Making a user talk into the remote...you basically have a remote with a command line interface. How the hell is Joe Sixpack going to know what they can say into the mic? Waaaay easier to look at a few buttons and click the one you want. Back to the drawing board, Intel. - DtectiveGFriday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8What time is Family Guy on TV? [beep]
What time is Family Guy on TV? [beep]
What time is Family Guy on TV? [beep]
What time is Family Guy on TV? [beep]
What time is Family Guy on TV? [Family Guy TV schedule] Hey! It actually worked for once! Whoa! - 500freestyle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I could better that. Negative one buttons...
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Dont you mean...
Intel: 0
Apple: 6
haha - Nanx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Cool idea, but five tries? Really?
- harshbarj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Seeing it's in a noisy conference hall and it's still in development I'd say that was impressive. It chose to ignore a command till it was sure it could understand. Something voice command on computers still have yet to achieve.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6WHAT! your comment is ten minutes old?!
*doesn't read* - DoGoodDrugs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7voice recognition has been on computers for a while.. this implementation was terrible to say the least... why wont this work? people dont want to talk to their TVs and computers.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5hahahaha. I love sarcastic comments like this.
- spy1325, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5its a one button remote... attached to the side of a regular remote, i bet this will be used just as much as cell phone voice activation is used. people will find it novel at first but find that simple button presses are just more efficiant
- JubbaG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The guy seemed rather excited when it worked.
- paragonconcept, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3until they make a remote that plugs into my brain - i will not be impressed ......
- ani-pockdotnet, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6FTA: "We've set the bar for 0 buttons on a remote control, so we'd like to see that be bettered for anyone that would like to take us up on this challenge"
- Shinglor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"people dont want to talk to their TVs and computers."
Exactly, maybe one day it will be normal for certain devices but right now it's just awkward and a waste of time. - tacojohn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow that worked so well, screw the apple remote, I want voice control that doesn't work. Yay!
- CaptanAwal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4old+dupe=no digg
- MaxwellTD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3im not sure but i think it takes more mucles to speak then to press a button :P
- fourzerofour, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Actually it's: Wot time is Family Guy on TV?
- Spal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3wasnt he pressing a button everytime before he talked into the remote???
- oyourmom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4This is so old. I saw it like a month ago.
- TheShrike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, not joke. If you look when he holds it towards the camera, you can obviously see what looks like a standard remote control, complete with keypad and all. It also appears that the press of a button on the side activates the speech recognition.
What would be nice is if there were some sort of clip-on mic that would transmit to your media center via bluetooth. Kind of like the communicators on StarTrek TNG. If it's gonna have all the regular buttons a normal remote would have, why bother? Surely the sound from any playing program would interfere with the voice recognition, and you'd have to pick it up and hold it close to talk anyway... - timwizard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This discriminates the dumb.
- monobrau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If it really had 0 buttons, then you wouldn't need to find it when you lose it --- just yell a lot.
(hint: its in the couch) - Knoton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I shall beat them, my remote will have negative 2 buttons, even fewer than zero. It shall accomplish this the same way things work in Soviet Russia, buttons push YOU!!
- iMatt711, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2talking takes too much effort, anyway voice commands wont work i mean if i cant understand that chinese guy say herro how will a computer
- tacos4me, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It looks like it has quite a few buttons..
- frem001, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3yeah it is quite awkward talking to my mac even when it answers back, now imagine talking to your media centre and all you hear is a r2-d2 beeb.
- philomatic, on 02/08/2009, -0/+2on second thought hold off on that, it'll prolly fill my DVR with tons of porn
- bking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You forgot "god, please let this work" after the second one...
- chrism1128, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think you could beat that by having any number of buttons that actually do SOMETHING.
- PhysicsTheory, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6People dont seem to understand that this is not a product, it was a conceptual demo. Yeah it didn't work 5 times, but that isn't the point. I was at that IDF (which was over a month ago, why is this on digg today?), and what the article fails to mention is after that demo, Don Macdonald said, this is merely a challenge to the industry and tongue-in-cheek "challenge" to Apple. Don wanted to show that if it is done right, we can even further improve the HCI aspects of computers in entertainment. Anyways, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple responds, "okay" and builds it in as a properly working feature of Frontrow when Leopard hits. I guess we'll have to wait and see... :)
- rdas7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It looks like just before they fire you, they make you do a demo of voice recognition (it's like cheating on your girlfriend so you don't have to break up with her).
- yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"please work"
- ledmatrix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Quite frankly, I prefer buttons. God, how lazy are we going to get!
- Mac2492, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I believe you forgot the invisible microscopic text that reads, "Note: The remote must work."
- TheNik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2People always complain but consistantly manage to not do anything about it. :(
- kalphegor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3or stupid...
- twitndiggfan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2if it worked, in a box the size of the apple remote, it'd b sweet, but as of now, the apple remote is still the best remote in the computer industry.
- munboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2XFD
Seriously, i've always hated voice recognition anything. Ever called Sears parts and repair? WORST. IVR. EVER. - imightbewrong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1most impressive....kinda
- typo180, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great example of someone trying to beat out some technical spec without actually making a better product. Plus, demos like this really make your appreciate Steve Job's speaking ability.
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