[Sigia-l] When will you buy one?

[Manu Sharma]

Lee wrote:

> This is really fantastic and definately somehting to consider.
[...]
> Until then, a flat panel display hung on a wall could really do a 
> lot to mitigate RSI.

If you hang it on a wall it becomes Minority Report UI...that's a 
recipe for compounding RSI, not mitigating it. Microsoft Surface 
would work best in a table setting. That is, until you have type 
something. That's where it sucks. You either have to get a separate 
keyboard or you key in on the touchscreen.

Handwriting recognition may be an option but making it work with 
bare fingers might be a challenge. Besides, it can't replace the 
entire keyboard.

Note that none of Microsoft's demos show text entry as part of 
browsing when actually it's is something that goes hand in hand with 
browsing, at least in current interfaces.

Manu