[Sigia-l] 2 steps back and 3 steps forward?

[Christopher Hadden]

The haptic element is there and there's also a sense that the surface
will be more aesthetically durable because it's not glossy. As a
designer, I would get this angst when my chrome-backed iPod got
smudged with fingerprints. I felt compelled to keep it polished. I was
glad to finally get rid of it after the hard drive crashed. It's the
same angst that someone has of door dings when parking a fancy sports
car (isn't that annoying how they double park at the far side of the
parking lot?) Together, those two little quirks of human nature may
keep the iPhone from being the ringing success we'd like it to be.

Christopher


On 3/5/07, Ziya Oz <listera at earthlink.net> wrote:
> With the iPhone Apple opened new UI vistas by replacing physical input
> generators (keyboard, mini-joysticks, buttons, etc) with multi-touch
> goodness. But what if you're not Apple and you can't (or prefer not to) go
> completely virtual? Enter:
>
> <http://www.neokeys.com/en/nk_en.html> (Click on Demos for the videos)
>
> Is this crack for haptic junkies, a brilliant half-way solution or too
> little too late?
>
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> Ziya
>
> Who doesn't use mobile devices of any kind.
>
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