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Originally posted by Art
This idea is not new.
Few ideas are new. The theremin was invented in 1919 and I drew plans for a theremin based game when I was 12.
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Interesting but wouldn't your arms tire of moving items around such a screen after several minutes?
That's why I would want it on a drafting table slant with wrap-around. If ergonomically situated, I don't think you would get any more tired than doing the shuffle-roll of a mouse on an extended screen or the slap-roll-slap of a trackball... Hmmm... as long as you can rest your hands on the screen when you are not using it.
I suppose, but since I couldn't get into most of the page yesterday I don't really know, that a virtual keyboard is possible. I also like the idea that you can place physical objects on the screen (with barcodes) to represent programic/textual/graphic objects. Computer chess with real chess pieces, perhaps extended to virtual "click bases" like the MechWarrior game pieces where attacks would include graphic animations and autoscoring. Ooo... I wonder if I can sell that Idea to MS? Maybe even bluetooth robotics to move computer-controlled enemies?
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Jeff Han developed this over a year ago and not Microsoft. Some claim that they are trying to duplicate what Jeff has done.
Some claim MicroSoft is Satan. I doubt that MS started work on this the day after Jeff disclosed his work. Someone over there has probably been working on it since 1980 or so when Touch screens hit the end-user market then failed miserably except in restaurants etc.
As someone who has many "inventions" in a notebook... in a box... under the bed... I can tell you that the real work of a successful inventor is getting the product marketed, distributed and sold. Microsoft has always excelled in that, and that's what makes them their money.