Without that commercialization is planned, Microsoft has to show a keyboard with a large touch screen and small displays integrated with keys. A known concept that has not - yet - been widely explored. The object was delivered to students who must figure out how to use it ...
In October 2010 will be held as an annual competition open to students of innovation, UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology). Organized by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), an association promoting data created in 1947, this meeting is a sort of league of innovation in many fields, such as interfaces, augmented reality and multimedia.
This year, Microsoft has given these students a new device for these young minds discover his original applications. We note in passing how the company founded by Bill Gates is interested in the interface tools, as demonstrated by its project Natal, the prototype KINECTS or studies on a magnetic interface in 3D.
It is indeed a keyboard interactive which the top has a large touch screen and whose keys themselves incorporate a tiny display to change its function.
On the prototype shown by Microsoft, a screen as wide as the keyboard, and multi-touch button, displays large icons. They can scroll with your finger. Buttons, each fitted with an LCD display, may have arisen options. (From the video posted on YouTube.)
In search of applications
itself, the idea is not new. Russian designer Art Lebedev (who also sells paper airplanes) proposed since 2007 (two years after announcing) the Optimus Maximus, wearing buttons with OLED screens. But the price is a disincentive (1667 euros on the current catalog). A compact version, the Popularis, is promised in the short term at least 1,000 euros.
The prototype Microsoft is more sophisticated. A (long) This video (in English) the keyboard rather innovative interactive. The screen displays a series of large icons that you can scroll in hand, while the buttons (which resemble those of a conventional keyboard) display a character that can be modified by software running .
One can imagine how easily such a device could usefully complement the icons and toolbars to display on the screen. But it is also necessary that applications are benefiting. Students will bring the contest UIST perhaps innovative ideas that will inspire Microsoft. For now, the company has not said anything about marketing or the price ..
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