Yet another two handed interface
by sam on Feb.23, 2009, under Good Idea, Interfaces, Sensors, Video, hardware, software, visualization
Sharing more in common with the Microsoft Surface than the Minority Report-style waving your hands around in the air, I think this is much closer to the ideal of human computer interaction, baring any kind of neural uplink. Direct manipulation with very little effort. The keyboard is the only thing that troubles me. This is 21st century technology being controlled, in part, by a 19th century data input device. Sure, the materials used to make it are different, but the action of tying in words one letter at a time, one finger at a time is the same, with a pattern of letters layout out in order to slow the user down so the striking hammers won’t stick together seems silly to say the least.
