i don't buy it. touch seems so intuitive because uses natural gestures - touching something to control it. a trackpad, however responsive, is still a proxy to the display, and therefore will never feel as natural as a touchscreen. i prefer my mouse to the trackpad on my envy. usually i turn off the trackpad because my thumb can inadvertently activate it when i am typing.
touch is clearly the future, but what it means is more far-reaching than switching from a mouse to a trackpad. It means the end of traditional desktops and even laptops, and the creation of new categories of systems using touch screen displays, many of them in non-traditional formats. think flexible displays. for instance, i would love to have a large mat display that i could roll out onto a flat surface and work with models and diagrams directly. with good voice recognition software, i might never even need to use an onscreen keyboard. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Tony <tonyw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/03/windows-ate-the-mouse/ > > Very cool. I have been considering a trackpad for some time. My > right arm is so destroyed by using the mouse (years of Unreal > Tournament didn't help) that I now use my left hand for mousing. > Would like to rid myself of the mouse entirely. > > Using a trackpad at the desk yet? I use it on the laptop, but when I > am "plugged in" using external monitor and whatnot I still use a > mouse. > > -Cameron > > -- > Cameron Childress > Sumo Consulting Inc > http://www.sumoc.com > --- > cell: 678.637.5072 > aim: cameroncf > email: cameronc@gmail. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338618 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
