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The near future of computing…
December 27th, 2007

Recently many of us have witnessed some exciting developments in human computer interface design. Jeff Han’s Ted Talk on a multi-touch screen interface design as well as the brilliant demo on the web site for his company, Perceptive Pixel, are inspiring. There is also Anand Agarawala’s demo of the BumpTop interface also on Ted Talks. And today, Gwen, pointed me towards Microsoft’s Surface project. This looks quite exciting. I now wonder what does Apple have up its sleeve? Could it be this?

Perceptive Pixel

Perceptive Pixel

Microsoft Surface

Microsoft Surface

Microsoft Surface

BumpTop

The near future of computing… it is not longer computing in the strict sense of the term. They are interfaces, tools, places and things to do. Not just computers.

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2 Responses to “The near future of computing…”

  1. Gwen Says:
    January 3rd, 2008 at 12:58 am

    Hey John, yeah, this is so exciting, ain’t it!

  2. John Larkin Says:
    January 3rd, 2008 at 2:57 am

    Hi Gwen
    It is quite interesting to see these developments. How will we keep our interface screens clean?
    Cheers
    John