"Interface-Free" Touch Screen at TED 194
Down8 writes, "Jeff Han, an NYU researcher, has recently shown off his 'interface free' touch screen technology at the TEDTalks in Monterey. Some sweet innovation that I hope makes it to the mainstream soon." The photo manipulation interface is reminiscent of "Minority Report."
Re:The Pentagon already bought this,,, (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldi
http://www.esri.com/library/fliers/pdfs/cs-northr
Re:Old story, and no such thing as 'no interface' (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Old story, and no such thing as 'no interface' (Score:3, Informative)
In particular we can see the zooming (into maps, etc) gestures in the patent imagery. http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/48/new-apple-patents/ [hrmpf.com] Although these ideas are not too-new, the related apple patents date as far back as Jan 2005 (through to Oct 06)
Re:Interface-free? (Score:3, Informative)
GNOME did invert some years ago the order of the buttons on right-to-left languages, following the example of the Apple UI, and uses verbs instead of the infamous YNC combo; so, no: "linux" does not do like windows.
and just to be overly zealous: windows vista added message boxes with verbs+descriptions, so neither does newer releases of windows do like the old times (finally).