* Death to Keyboards & Monitors: The OmniTouch

[Ben Graham]

Keyboards & Monitors will no longer be needed.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/this-could-be-big-abc-news/death-keyboards-monitors-omnitouch-202115388.html

[augustabound]

Cool stuff.  It'll be interesting to see how something like that shapes up over the next few years.

 

[bathtime]

Cool Microsoft vision of the future:

 

http://www.kurzweilai.net/microsoft-offers-a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-productivity

[augustabound]

Cool stuff.  It'll be interesting to see how something like that shapes up over the next few years.

 

Keep an eye on Microsoft with Skype, XBox , and Windows Phone - Combine all  with OmniTouch and you have a Killer!

 

As someone who studied architecture in school, I wonder about the future of a program like Autocad too.  You could take presentation drawings and conceptualize in the customers living room making changes right in front of their eyes.

[augustabound]

My only question about that clip is, why would someone want to play a virtual instrument?

[augustabound]

Oh no, the links are great, I wasn't questioning that and I think the technology is amazing.  It didn't take them long to improve upon the technology that drives the Nintendo Wii. 

 

I was just thinking more in the context of the musician or aspiring musician. 

I'm a lifelong golfer and had my handicap down to single digits (hence my love of all things Augusta :) )

I couldn't imagine not using a club and a ball to simulate the swing.  Swinging nothing has no appeal to me, virtual simulators have little appeal to me also.

 

But I realize everyone is different, but swinging a golf club and playing an instrument are similar.  You need to feel it in your hands.

 

The technology itself phenomenal though.