The OmniTouch: Death to Keyboards, Monitors

[GT Bulmer]

Hello, Forum Friends:

Just saw this item on Yahoo! News:

Death to Keyboards & Monitors: the OmniTouch

Imagine, never needing a keyboard or a monitor again! Access your "computer" anywhere and everywhere! Here is the technology.

However ... at the moment ... it looks like a parrot on a pirate's shoulder, lol. But give it time. It has potential. The device mounts on your shoulder and shoots an image onto any surface you want. Then you control the images by touch, like using a computer touch pad or touch screen. Very cool.

(Please indulge my divergence for a moment, but as I have suggested before, the direction we are heading is to have complete computer implants in our brains so we won't need any external hardware ... but that's another story. )

Check out the news item and accompanying video and see what you think of this new technology.

GT

[Evan]

Thanks for sharing GT!

The first sentence of the article caught me right away (especially being a father of a 2.5 year old)

"The other day I watched a toddler approach a flat-screen television and, with Cheetos-encrusted fingers, try to swipe the boring show away."

[GT Bulmer]

LOL, yes. About a month ago a viral YouTube video showed a young child trying to do the same with print magazines.

One of our grandkids started using his mom's iPad when he was about three and he quickly learned to just zip around that thing better than a lot of adults know how to use a computer!

Given the present advances in technology, imagine the inventions to come when these kids grow up!

GT

[MichelleJ]

whenever we have some bit of technology that we are unable to decipher or install, we look around for a ten year old child, they are the ones who can usually do it The kids today are using technology before they can walk so I am sure that they will do even more with it than the present generation has managed.

MichelleJ

[ideasuniversity]

It reminded me of a lady that when she started using computer was so accustom to undo key, that a day she mistakenly poured out her milk, she was thinking if she could press the undo button on her cup to bring back the milk.

[MichelleJ]

Now if someone could invent something to undo all those things that we did in error that would really be something.

MichelleJ

[ideasuniversity]

Now if someone could invent something to undo all those things that we did in error that would really be something.

MichelleJ

This world would have been a better place. For example if someone is mistakenly shot and died, the undo button will bring the person back to life. It can only happen in the movie

[Mal Tindle]

Parrots on my shoulder, implants in my brain, bringing dead people back to life, I think I need to take to my bed ,

Seriously, a very interesting video, I was going to say it will be a while before this happens but when you consider that the web is only 20 years old, advancing technology will probably have this in the shops by next week !!,


Mal.

[GT Bulmer]

Hey, Mal. We do like to have our fun sometimes, don't we?

In reality, regarding the OmniTouch device, it may not be as new as it first appears. Your post made me think of disabled people (quadriplegics in particular, like famous scientist Stephen Hawking), who are confined to wheelchairs, but are hooked up to electronic devices that let them manipulate a computer.

Some do it by voice command; some by eye movement; I think some have a little tube device near their mouth that they can puff air into to activate certain things.

As technology improves and miniaturizes, these devices will get more portable and more widely used.

And then, of course, there is the burgeoning field of nanotechnology. Even now, scientists are building programmable structures on a microscopic scale.

I can see the future coming and it is here, now!

GT