[Sigia-l] The Future Comes to Life

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

 >> when an affordable version comes out this thing is going to be Huge
>
> I don't doubt it. :-)

That gets my vote for funniest post on the list this year!

Lee - I refer you to the source:
http://www.hacker-dictionary.com/terms/gorilla-arm



2008/5/16 Ziya Oz <listera at earthlink.net>:

> 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
>
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