Check out this video below.
What they’re doing essentially is using a machine to test the effectiveness of touchscreens on multiple different handsets.
Pretty neat, I might add.
But, the question I thought about was whether we are truly more effective and productive are we with touchscreen technology?
Maybe we really just need to jump to the Minority Report level where we don’t even touch the screens…?
Eh, not sure. What’s your take?
[HT: @AllisWell]
check this out: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/you-too-can-soon-be-like-tom-cruise-in-minority-report/
From movie to concept to ‘for real’.
The iPhone is clearly superior in this test, no arguments or surprises there.
I can’t say whether we’d be more productive with touch SCREENS, but I know for sure that my multi-touch MBP pad is a lot more productive than a PC non-touch mouse pad for moving around… 2-finger scrolling, pinching, swiping, rotating… it is by far the fastest way to operate a computer right now.
I’m waiting for a big 17″ ‘nintendo-ds-inspired’ laptop – a sharp 17″ display, plus a nice 17″ multi-touch screen with virtual-keyboard that can become a blank slate WITH the operation of a stylus for sketching/painting. Now that would be a productive machine…
/drools
I agree with the MBP comment… when ever I have to do something on a PC laptop I keep trying to swipe!
That Nintendo idea isn’t a bad one at all.
Interesting video. Shouldn’t *finger-testing* be the definitive test in this case? I mean I know…science and everything. But the results of him drawing it himself seem more compelling to me.
Regardless the Motorola Droid is hurtin in this aspect. The others seemed almost comparable.
Touch screens FTW.
In my earlier career I used to service / fix PCs in all sorts of bizarre places. Some of the weirdest (in terms of abuse) were van & truck service centres and coal mines. Both utilised touchscreens with protective coatings around – especially useful with teh coal mine as coal dust is so invasive you wouldn’t believe where it can get!!!!
Anyway – point is, touchscreens were huge boons to both these places and if they can work there then why not anywhere?
Having abandoned my blackberry curve for the iPhone, my world has opened up. BTW, you can purchase my t-mobile blackberry curve here if you like: http://tinyurl.com/yfbawmx
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This is the ONLY time I will say this:
Tom Cruise is cool.
We aren’t too far away from this stuff actually happening fo real! It’s gonna be sweet!