Comments on: Video: Jeff Han And His Amazing Multi-Touch Screens

By: Lauren the Ghoti

Lauren the Ghoti — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:36:00 +0000

Teletype? You had a Teletype?

‘Ooo! Ooo! No more buttered scones for me, Mater, I’m orf to read what’s on my bleedin’ Teletype.‘

You lot don’t know how easy you’ve got it! Why, we had naught but wee pairs of lights for each bit in the registers, and we were lucky t’have them!

Teletype! Why, I never!

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By: Uncle Dave

Uncle Dave — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:53:08 +0000

#20: Display screens? Who needs display screens when my teletype works just fine!

By: BubbaRay

BubbaRay — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:28:57 +0000

20, Some of us dinosaurs remember a time when people said things like “We already have keyboards…what’s the point of some gimmick that moves useless little pictures around on the screen? It’ll never fly.”

Right on. I can imagine what I could do with this tech. Let the others keep the boring spreadsheets and word processors. Damn Neo-Luddites…

By: ECA

ECA — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:20:24 +0000

20,
My old computer was AMIGA, not wintel…I had 4,096 colors…NOT 256.

By: Lauren the Ghoti

Lauren the Ghoti — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:44:11 +0000

Some of us dinosaurs remember a time when people said things like “We already have keyboards that can generate any ASCII character and 132- character-wide 256-color display screens, so what’s the point of some gimmick that moves useless little pictures around on the screen? It’ll never fly.”

Cursor_ & Steve S -
There’re millions of salaried workers in countless fields whose jobs involve photos, blueprints, diagrams, maps and other such visual representations. They’re in the “real world of business” and that’s the labor they perform in order to “eat and put a roof over their heads.”

I don’t think you guys have been getting out much these last 20 years or so…

By: Awake

Awake — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:56:52 +0000

An indication of how desperately this is needed… the incredible success of tablet PCs. NOT!
Yeah, I really want to stand 18 inches away from a huge screen all the time… easy way to go cross eyed or blind. If this gets any use at all, it will be on standard (20″) screens.

By: pedro

pedro — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:25:01 +0000

#2 yeah, get rid of the mouse and keyboard for something like this. If a mouse or a keyboard goes out of bussiness, you just replace them. If the touch sensitive part of this monitor goes out, you have to change the whole thing and I can bet you, it loks quite “affordable”, don;t you think?

#4 is older than 1 year.

By: JimR

JimR — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:06:51 +0000

Dave, thank you for posting this. I didn’t know about it …. must have missed the blip a year ago.

As for scratches, there’s a simple solution. wear thin cotton gloves or cotton “thimbles”.

I also found this interesting…

“Yes, the iPhone uses Multi-touch technology. * FingerWorks has been bought by Apple in June 2006. * Jeff Han has NOT been hired by Apple to work on the iPhone There were rumors that Apple had tried (unsuccessfully) to hire Jeff at one point to work on the launch of the iphone. NY Times techie David Pogue even asked Steve Jobs about him on the day of the launch. Here’s Jeff Hans’ response on the iPhone: “The iPhone is absolutely gorgeous, and I’ve always said, if there ever were a company to bring this kind of technology to the consumer market, it’s Apple. I just wish it were a bit bigger so I could really use both of my hands.” “

By: ECA

ECA — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:46:28 +0000

OK…
a 2″x3″ screen.
Plastic membrane
2 fingers…3 fingers…???
WHY??
1 hand to hold the item, and 1 hand to hold/use 2 stylus??
I dont see why the controls would need to be on the screen.

I can see the plastic membrane being scratched to HELL, from finger nails. I see dirty/virus laden fingers ALL over the screen.
NOW think about cleaning that screen. I know alot of you KNOW how to clean these screens, but we are NOT among the many, that DONT.

For practical USE, business and so forth, I see no USE.
For some strange Kiosk, there MIGHT be a use.
For SOME music demo, there might be a use.
Maybe even for cad/cam…
I could really see some person with the monitor ON their lap in HL, using more then 1 finger, and his HANDS get in the way of the monitor.

By: hellfire

hellfire — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:50:53 +0000

#12, I hope you are trolling… this could easily be done sitting, its a demo which is why he is standing…

I think most of you are missing the point. This doesn’t have to mean you throw out the keyboard and mouse, it could just as easily be an addition to current input devices. Also, I think that using a pen like stylus would be much easier to enter numbers in a spreadsheet than using a keyboard.

By: moss

moss — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:34:37 +0000

Beancounters forget that PC stands for Personal Computing.

The wonderful world of business has moved back to one step above Big Iron and Dumb Terminals. Thin clients don’t have optical storage, floppy drives or USB ports. Security doesn’t allow for it. What is used for all the “important” crap that concerns #1 is a dumb terminal with an OS and (maybe) a hard drive. Individuals who own and use their own Personal Computer need something more than Visicalc.

I haven’t any preference for a touchscreen, yet. Cripes, I haven’t used one on anything other than a PDA since 1985 (early HP dayz). But, then, there was a time when anything other than command line entry was regarded with suspicion and who the heck wanted a mouse?

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:18:46 +0000

Expect multitouch pr0n games in the future.

By: Sitting man

Sitting man — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:14:35 +0000

Who the hell wants to do their computer work standing anyway?

By: mossm

mossm — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:18:49 +0000

Right #9 – so, think and behave like an accountant. Poor, dull git.

By: Mac Guy

Mac Guy — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:08:33 +0000

Actually, I can think of quite a few military applications of this technology. Coordinating battlefield movements of troops in a way that’s more fluid and real-time… I can see the military jumping all over this.