May 02, 2007

The GUI from Minority Report Looks like it might be closer (although maybe clunky and counter productive) than some people think.

Might be cool for photo viewing, or nifty web/alternative interface gadget, but for daily office work, would be cumbersome to say the least. Still, kinda cool. (via Metafilter)

  • Not quite a duplicate post ... but already covered here.
  • Counter productive how? Right now I can only think of the drool that would get on the screen a lot.
  • The only thing I can think is that your arms would get tired initially, but hey, mild exercise with your 1337 h4xx0rz1ngz0rz wouldn't be a bad idea. Me like.
  • The obvious difficulty I can see with these systems is the lack of a good keyboard input system. For all their faults, keyboards are, still, the most efficient way of entering text. I've seen people claim that you can emulate a keyboard by having an image of a keyboard appear on the screen, but I don't like this solution, as you'd get no tactile feedback from the keyboard, which seems to be really important for typists. I'm not sure I could last long typing on a tabletop with no keys.
  • Bah. Bah! I say. See also: Feh, meh.
  • Next, the iris scanners.