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[_] Surface computing

Chris Brock chris.brock at gmail.com
Wed May 30 15:39:44 BST 2007

I cant say that it impresses me much...

what actual social value does it have.

is it not always more pleasant to speak to waiters or use a pen and
paper to draw...etc etc.etc.. the human element..seems devoid of that
really.

just another Great tool for advertisers and big corporations.

perhaps this is the wrong space to say that as 'were' all techies!?

!Chris





On 5/30/07, Steve Roome <steve at pepcross.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:30:49PM +0100, stefan burt wrote:
> > Saw this earlier today it's cool technology, that Dixon's advert
> > really got people thinking.
>
> As soon as I'd seen the FTIRtouch systems I wanted to build one, but
> sadly didn't have enough decent webcams.
>
> As soon as the hardware is available it should (I hope) arrive as a
> HID compliant device and be workable on pretty much any OS.
>
> Multiple HID works fine for me under FreeBSD and I see no reason why
> it can't be adapted pretty quick. If I had a webcam I'd have one set
> up already - the code looks pretty easy to write once the design of
> the hardware is sorted out.
>
>         Steve
>
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