Yup, it will have two great multi-touch screens! And they are even working on haptic feedback. Yippeee! While still more than a year away, it is nice to see where they wish to go.
I have said this many time, OLPC is the future of computing. This will change the world.
Let’s go and have some fun
On the beach
Where there is a party
Everyone will be there
On the beach
Where there is a party
We’re gonna have a ball
Dancing and singing and whining and all
Holding hand together and laughing and all
Then we’ll dance, dance, dance, daaaance…
OLPC 2 First Look is pretty sweet.
As an owner of the iPhone I do not recommend using a touch-screen for typing. Our bodies need the tactile feedback. There is no argument that a touch screen keyboard is better from a tech perspective, I do not feel it is better from a physical one.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the whole “keyboard can expand to fit the size of your hands” concept. And certainly typing on a screen is better than not being able to type and being forced to use a pointer or mouse. But at the end of the day, we should not be forced to compromise. Let’s first lay out what we want and then try to get there.
As of today we know that:
Multi-touch screens are the best to work with
Tactile keyboards are easier to type on
A haptic feedback keyboard on a multi-touch screen would be the best of both worlds. Imagin feeling when your finger moved over the gap between letters on the keyboard. Flight simulators use small changes in motion to trick out minds into thinking large changes have occurred. A similar small “feedback” should be able to be developed for the keyboard.
What is right for one is right for all. Why can gay white men not see that? Why can “straight” white Hillary supporters not see that? We want equality. That is all. Nothing more. But certainly nothing less.
While I am overjoyed that the court did something Good™ in this one case, I am saddened that the Castro does not take a deeper look into their on racism and sexism…
