Next Generation - Touch screen applications! Are we ready yet?

Keyboard is a history now. Look at some of the latest gadgets we are adopting and using – Virtual and infrared Keypads, keyless - iPods, iPhones, Touch Screen mobile devices and so on….

From Early days to modern hi-tech computers, the technical evolution has witnessed a rapid change, the way the human interact with computers and software applications, emerged from CGI to GUI into NUI (Natural user interface). User Experience: Ux (also referred as UI: User interface) has become the mantra of every software vendor like Apple, Sony, HP and Microsoft, to extend the touch and feel aspect into reality. Some of the future technologies implemented and used in home projects (Source: Future Disney Innovations) by Microsoft (Xbox 360, Vista, Zune and Surface):

• Magic Mirror: A mirror projects different clothes, accessories and hairstyles onto each family member’s image when they stand before it. The clothes not only morph to the contours of the body, but also sway as the person in front of the mirror moves

• Kitchen of Your Dreams: The kitchen recognizes ingredients as a family member sets them on the counter, suggesting recipes for those items and providing instructions once a recipe is selected.

• Story Time: Visit the child’s room to be transported to Neverland. Read “Peter Pan” aloud to absorb a full multimedia experience, as cues in the story set off lights, sounds, colours and video.

Microsoft Surface – by name itself explains what it can do. It’s a touch screen technology based machine.   Recollect the scenario shown in 2002 sci-fi movie Minority Report, where Tom Cruise uses his hands and fingers to cut, split, join the pictures and pull the records and so on. It can recognize physical objects from a paintbrush to a cell phone and allows hands-on, direct control of content such as photos, music and maps. Even though Microsoft has announced Surface in May 2007 at D5 Conference, it yet to become a main stream for commercial usage. 

During TechFest, Researches from all over the world converged on Microsoft HQ in Redmond, Washington to show off their latest inventions – “Family Archive” and “Reality V2.0”. The message from Microsoft is very clear: Even as the software maker tightens its belt to survive the economic downturn, it has pledged to continue spending money on research that doesn’t really translate into profits.

Next-Gen Touch screen applications are in R&D stage, where fingers will used to perform variety of tasks. Scientists in Germany [source:physorg.com] are developing a new communication platform called ‘iPoint 3D’ – using this, people will be able to communicate with 3D display without touching, and without 3D glasses or a data gloves – options like moving hands in the air to do a simple tasks such as selecting an option to viewing any image from all angles. When these platforms are made available as commercial packages, then Touch Screens TOO will be history….

Technical innovations that will change the way people communicate - shop, dine, entertain, work and live. What is next? ...Are we Ready?

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