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finger

this pic and others *here*

*beep*

Funny… That discovery of the multi-touch-screen stimulated a lot of conversations around our place. (previously journalized).

I started preachy-poo-blow-harding about how we’re overdue to completely re-examine how we (people) interact with machines and information.

I’d like my ipod to do everything my cell phone does – but with a click wheel… no….
maybe just a “click wheel etching” on a smooth glass-like surface that is completely gesture driven…. (FingerOSâ„¢?)

Spin your finger around the etched circle and it acts like a jog wheel for songs…

Tap the surface four times and the screen clears to white… I draw a heart with my finger on the surface and the device calls home.

Anyway… Somewhere in the convo I think it was Chad who asked if I saw the new phone from Nokia… which sounded similar in spirit to what I was talking about.

Google be damned… We found this little Kubrickian minimal delicious piece of telecom.

I don’t think they’re out here yet… I don’t want to know.

No room in the budget for toys after horkin up the cash for the Nikon….

We need new windows on the house… not a new cell phone for Jim.

oh but *SQUEEEE*… shhhhh..

*click*

*dial tone*

touch me


*beep*

Woopsie.

Week got off to a hectic start… didn’t have, make the time to stop and smell the blog fodder.

The weekend was pretty much a wash…

My imagination got a kick in the pants though when I stumbled onto this DEMO VIDEO for a new (?) type of touch-screen.

This is the kinda stuff that gets me all wiggly and wowie-zowie-eyed like I was a student again.

enthusiasm….. a commodity that seems to start to fail with age….. but I see stuff like this and I start daydreaming about re-teaching myself flash and wanting to hold up a warehouse lab somewhere living off of research grant money and macaroni and cheese developing new ways to interact with graphics.

*slaps self*

anyway… it was a nice tickle.

*click*

*dial tone*