the movies is predicted right!

yup, according to these guys computers are gonna become alot more tactile, I can easily imagine that we'l be using this technology in combination with this:







I really love watching ted talks because they make me feel like I'm seeing the future.

pretty fantastic

yeah wow I want one of those .. a lot

Thanks for posting this. I saw a video on an earlier model of this touch screen a few months ago and I was blown away by all the applications.

lol @ february 2006

You can get one of these right now, you just have to buy an iphone.

sweet! I LOVE watching these new tech videos every year.



I'm interested in the kind of applications this could have with hand-sculpting drawings. or even music.

lol @ iphones for no reason

ps the mouse will never die

I think one of the areas thats going to be changed alot is how we go about doing animation, to do a fairly simple animation (e.g no change in camera angles) you'd need to do on drawing and set the movement joints and people could create an animation very quickly.



So what you'll see is alot of rubbish being produced by the average user, but the trained and skilled will be able to use it to create master pieces.

If this makes it through then there wont be a need for a mouse.

http://www.ted.com/



They have a number of really interesting videos of lectures and demonstrations on that site on a wide variety of topics. You should go check it out. Everything from a doctor who found a way to combat phantom limb pain to a guy who figured out some practical classroom uses for the wii remote.

Thanks snakeman, but thats actually where I got the videos from.



But I'd really, really love to go to the TED conference but $6,000 is a little out of my price range.

yeah, i figured, but no link or explanation dude. i'm helping the people out. specifically the lazy people.

lolz

The mouse is the lazy man's tool. And we all lazy. No one wants to be all up waving their hands and shit. Getting all sweaty. Wanna sit back in my comfy char and move inches with my mouse.

werd.

i want a pen tablet that feels like my sketch pad

whoo Fucking hoo...



I could have a $10 (well $60~ in my case) mouse or a hundredes / thousands of dollar display to for input.



also how old is the video cause isn't this thing almost exactly like microsoft's surface thing??? which has been floating about for awhile.





http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4217348.html