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Girl to get tracker implant to ease parents' fears.

I found the sentence "Yesterday several children's charities said they were unsure about the implant." inordinately amusing.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 12:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

Why don't they fucking go the whole hog and give her bionic legs so she can run away and a protective outer shell made from steel, jesus.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 13:55 (8 years ago) Permalink

She'll be absolutely GUTTED when she wants to go out on the piss illegally at the age of 16.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 13:58 (8 years ago) Permalink

the argument about the missing car vs. misssing kids is really horrible. I don't understand ppl that compare there children with their cars. i hate them.

― erik, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 17:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

it sounds like a disgusting idea (putting something under the skin) but it could be so useful. i don't know what to say.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 17:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

No surprises who is behind this idea.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 17:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

Kevin W!! I heart him he is a total mentalist!! We interviewed him when we did our Terminator Opera!! He will not rest until he is a cyberman!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 19:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

Spot the extra comma in Ronan's post.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 19:34 (8 years ago) Permalink

Extra comma? Shell made from steel jesus?

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 21:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

Yes I clicked on the link and thought hold on, Kevin Warwick alert. I notice he is keeping the privilege of cybercommunion with door and fridge for himself the selfish git.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 21:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

7 years pass...

OK, do over.

is THIS the future?

I can't embed Vimeo here, but it's this dude's proposal for "completely new way of interacting with desktop computers".

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10-finger touch pad, overall look and feel of the OS, the global menu accessible on the right, the local menu on the left

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not sold on his method of organizing multiple windows.

― big darn deal (Z S), Friday, 20 November 2009 15:22 (9 months ago) Permalink

Alternatively, is THIS the future?

― big darn deal (Z S), Friday, 20 November 2009 15:25 (9 months ago) Permalink

That video is so condescending that I only made it through two minutes, but basically it's a large multitouch pad that's the same size as the screen.

― so says surgeon snoball (snoball), Friday, 20 November 2009 15:35 (9 months ago) Permalink

That's the first part, yeah, and then it goes into the actual demo about 5 minutes in.

I suppose that everyone at my work is so persistently condescending that I don't even notice anymore. It just sounds like a dude talking about his ideas to me.

― big darn deal (Z S), Friday, 20 November 2009 15:42 (9 months ago) Permalink

I started off sceptical about multi-touch - how long does it take to get profficient at, say, guitar or piano? Are people going to put that amount of effort into their computers? No. But the one-two-three-four finger approach, using multiple fingers but as a single unit, seems like a really effective but simple idea.

Not so convinced about the scrolling-apps-on-desktop idea, doesn't seem like a better solution than taskbar or tiled/stacked windows.

― George Mucus (ledge), Friday, 20 November 2009 15:55 (9 months ago) Permalink

Are people going to put that amount of effort into their computers? No.

People "practice" with their computers every day.

And think about the number of typing/"keyboarding" classes there are, both for schoolkids and beyond.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 20 November 2009 16:00 (9 months ago) Permalink

yeah i did think about that... but so many people can't type and wouldn't want to learn. and computers should be easy to use from the get-go, no practising necessary. well the minimum possible anyway.

― George Mucus (ledge), Friday, 20 November 2009 16:05 (9 months ago) Permalink

My thoughts about multi-touch are that

1) more advanced computer users will take to it immediately
2) intermediate users will take to it more gradually, but they'll get there. I'm sure people were initially skeptical about other innovations that we now take for granted.
3) people (grandmas) who are already struggling are going to be left in the dust.

― big darn deal (Z S), Friday, 20 November 2009 16:06 (9 months ago) Permalink

Just to simulate how annoying this is, try switching from the keyboard to the mouse with both hands. So unnecessary. Also if you've got enough coordination to do a global zoom with one hand and scroll a window with the other, get off Twitter and pick up an instrument

― robertwolf8080, Friday, 20 November 2009 16:13 (9 months ago) Permalink

The thing is, though, 99% of the time you would just be using one hand multi-touch. You'd be using multiple fingers on that one hand, functioning as a sort of super-enhanced mouse, but your other hand would remain on the keyboard like it probably is now. I imagine that there would be some uses for full 10-finger interaction (the first that comes to mind is flash games, actually!) but I doubt it would come up that often.

― big darn deal (Z S), Friday, 20 November 2009 16:17 (9 months ago) Permalink

Also if you've got enough coordination to do a global zoom with one hand and scroll a window with the other, get off Twitter and pick up an instrument

Wondering why anyone would want to do a global zoom and scroll at the same time.

― big darn deal (Z S), Friday, 20 November 2009 16:19 (9 months ago) Permalink

FYI, to answer the thread's question: I believe that children are the future.

― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Friday, 20 November 2009 16:23 (9 months ago) Permalink


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