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The Age of Touch Computing 414

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 15, 2008 @12:45PM from the touch-me-there dept.

DigitalDame2 writes "In 2009, touch computing will go mainstream. More and more devices will be legitimately touch-enabled with gesture controls for browsing through photos, tossing objects around the screen, flicking to turn the page of a book, and even playing video games and watching movies. In fact, Gartner analyst Steve Prentice told the BBC recently that the mouse will be dead in three to five years. PCMag has a full look at touch computing — the past, the present, and the future — including an interview with Sabrina Boler, touch UI designer."

Submission + - "bob's game" MASSIVE nintendo DS game by o (youtube.com) 1

Submitted by on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @11:33AM

An anonymous reader writes: I'm surprised this isn't on Slashdot already! Check out this HUGE Nintendo DS homebrew, a retail quality adventure game created entirely by a 25 year old independent developer. Robert Pelloni says he's spent 15,000 hours on it over 5 years, starting on the GBA in 2003. The dedication put into the project really shows, this is pretty amazing! The main page is at http://www.bobsgame.com/ where he sums it up himself "It's the game I wanted to play when I was younger, a vision I've been following since then."

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