http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLhMVNdplJc
Can't wait...
Cool vid re: future PC interface
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Post 2
now THAT, is cool.
Post 3
Oooooooh i want one! gimme gimme gimme :D
Post 4
Coolness. I think I've seen vids of this tech before somewhere.
Post 5
reminds me of Apple's Multi touch video thing
Post 6
Thats gona be awesome. I wana see that in adverts. Just think, those annoying spam adverts on website that mate you want to click (eg the beer one where you have to skull the beer befor the other guy) but you touch it with your hands and fully interactive. Or games where you have to touch a point and score point, with a prize. All of this at a train station. So much more.
Edit: Looked at the comments. Last one put my comment here to shame. The eye toy could do that...
Post 7
Presenting: El Presidente's Timeline of All Cool Software Innovation:
1. The primordial ooze.
2. Innovation first discovered/developed in research lab or by PhD student. Is written in Lisp.
3. Nothing happens for 30 years.
4. PhD student or former researcher takes up residence at Apple. After years of patient bowing, begging and scraping, The Steve is convinced that this technology belongs in the next release of OS X - Really Big Pussy Cat.
5. After The Steve demos the new technology or feature at WWDC, Microsoft immediately announces that they had that feature planned for Windows Nice View Isn't It Mate? already. And it will be a jazillion times better than OS X. Truly. Really.
6. OS X Really Big Pussy Cat released with cool new technology.
7. Mac fanatics rub new feature in the face of Windows fans. Somewhere, somebody posts that Amiga had this feature 20 years ago. (It later turns out that they're just trying to start a flamewar).
8. Microsoft promises that cool new technology will be available for XP and Vista as well as for Windows Nice View Isn't It Mate?
9. Several years later, Microsoft quietly drops the cool new technology from its technology roadmap.
10. A decade later, Windows Crikey, It Shipped comes out with the now cool, but not very new technology. Windows types brag to Mac users that they can do this cool new thing, which was hand-crafted by Bill Gates in x86 Assembler! Mac fans retort that they had it a decade ago, the Lisp weenies arc up that they had it in 1971 and an all-out flamewar ensues. The flamewar ends with some Windows type pointing out that "nobody uses Macs or Lisp, nerni nerni ner ner!"
11. Meanwhile, a new innovation is first discovered/developed in research lab or by PhD student. Is written in Lisp...
Post 8
Whats Lisp? Sounds like binnary with S's and s's.
Post 9
Haha at "Google should have something like this in their lobby"..
But yeah looks awesome, new technology is always a cool thing.
Post 10
Quote from Ritz:
Whats Lisp?
It's the second oldest high-level programming language (after FORTRAN). It's also arguably the most advanced.
http://gigamonkeys.com/book/introduction-why-lisp.html
or
http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/acl1.txt
if you can stand plain text.