accident prone

I’ve seen a couple different approaches to getting away from this whole mouse and keyboard thing that’s just not working so well for computing.

First there was the 10/gui which uses all ten of your fingers on a touchpad.

Now there’s g-speak that was demoed at TED, which is much like the interface used in the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report.

I honestly don’t see how either really help me get my TPS reports done any more efficiently, but both do have some good ideas that I think could make it into a consumer OS.

Personally I think that an iPad like device that supports more than two finger multitouch on top of a real display would make an awesome peripheral that would compliment a keyboard and mouse driven interface. Think of having all your photoshop palettes on a touch screen in front of you, separate from your actual work area, or, more applicable to me, a screen with all the various WoW functions I want to be able to access at a moments notice but don’t really want cluttering up my window into the game world.