[Sigia-l] The Future Comes to Life

[Ziya Oz]

Lee Hsieh:

> when an affordable version comes out this thing is going to be Huge

I don't doubt it. :-)

The guy who introduced this a few days ago also predicted at Comdex 2001
that "within five years, I predict that it will be the most popular form of
PC sold in America."

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/Press/2001/Nov01/11-11Comdex2001KeynotePR
.mspx 

He also predicted in 2004 that email spam would be dead in two years' time.
And that our PCs at this point would be speech driven. And so on.

I missed the huge Tablet PC boom, so I was doubly determined to get ahead of
this gestural computing wave. I recently set up a Yahoo group, WallHuggers,
maybe you've heard of it? I am about to finish a video to be made available
on YouTube wherein I show very clearly that if and when you run out of
digits to make a complex gesture on the wall, you can use a kickboxing move
to make your toes available as complementary computing agents (CCAs).

And I have a surprise for all those interaction designers out there. Among
the many dozens of open source gestural samples at my site, you will find
one that slows down the finger gesture in proportion to the size of the data
it references: the larger the data involved, the slower and stickier the
gesture. Neat huh? 

But that's nothing, I hope you download and try the "HotScent" framework.
Using infrared, the system allows you to feel the temperature of the
navigation: as you get closer to your correct query result, your digits can
feel the rising temperature.

Anyhow, I'm giving a talk on June 9 where I'll demo even more exciting
stuff. It's only $795, use my access code (MSFT) and get 85% off.

So yeah, I'm there.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba