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Vicki Davis

Horizon Report 2010 - Gesture Based Computing Links - 0 views

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    The mouse and keyboard are no longer the only way to input data into computing devices. This trend capitalizes on touch interfaces as made popular by the itouch/ iphone as well as the gesture based interfaces made popular by the Wii. Additionally, sixth sense computing (as seen in Minority Report) is a reality as this has already been invented. These links are from the Horizon Report 2010 and will be used by students in the NetGenEd project to understanding Gesture Based computing
Vicki Davis

Gartner Says Touchscreen Mobile Device Sales Will Grow 97 Percent in 2010 - 2 views

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    The worldwide market for touchscreen mobile devices will surpass 362.7 million units in 2010, a 96.8 percent increase from 2009 sales of 184.3 million units, according to Gartner, Inc. By 2013, touchscreen mobile devices will account for 58 percent of all mobile device sales worldwide and more than 80 percent in developed markets such as North America and Western Europe.
Steve Madsen

Microsoft Project Natal hands-on - 2 views

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    My avatar has just experienced its first true taste of freedom, whacking a ball back and forth in a simple game called Ricochet guided only by the motion of my body.
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    Microsoft's Natal Project
Vicki Davis

13 of the Brightest Tech Minds Sound Off on the Rise of the Tablet | Magazine - 1 views

  • Forget the netbook. It’s a slow, clunky piece of junk.
  • Ten years from now, we will look back at the tablet and see it as an end point, not a beginning. The tablet may turn out to be the final stage of an extraordinary era of textual innovation, powered by 30 years of exponential increases in computation, connection, and portability.
  • but there will be a steady decrease in radical new ways we interact with text.
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  • Think of them as windows that you carry
  • Brian Eno once famously said (in the pages of Wired) that the problem with computers was that there was not enough Africa in them. By this he meant that computers as we knew them could “see” only the wiggling ends of our fingers as we typed. But if they could see and employ the rest of our body, as if we were dancing or singing, we could express ourselves with greater finesse.
  • It overthrows the tyranny of the keyboard.
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    Excellent information from some leaders in technology for those studying mobile computing and the implications.
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