It seems appropriate to resume the discussion on user interfaces now, during the last few days after the official Apple new creature that would, among other things, just revolutionize the way people interact with machine.
In myriad of rumors on the latest invention of Jobs, surely one of the most reliable on the interface is almost completely based on the color screen multi-touch.
We know (almost) for sure in fact that the tablet will not have a keyboard "real" but they show a "virtual" when necessary.
In reality we can expect much more from the house on several occasions had to innovate or even reinvent, the user interface.
One of the most promising would be the use of "gestures " or particular movements of the fingers on the touch screen, the OS should be interpreted according to the circumstances.
In practical communication based on a sort of "body language" or rather "the touch".
Some examples:
Drawing a circle: "copy"
three fingers from one point to open: "paste"
Semicerchio clockwise: "select all"
and so on.
It 's easy to see that this new way to communicate with the computer, if properly engineered, could be an important evolutionary step.
question is not to save weight and space for the keyboard, but to make possible a whole range of new applications yet to be invented, of which the e-reader is certainly one of the most banal. We just have to wait a couple of days to discover the future.
update: iPad has been officially announced, the first impressions of those who have experienced substantial disappointment, mostly for the operating system and hardware features not exceptional.
In fact maybe you expected something undefined brilliant but that does not appear to preserve the last Apple product.
But some people are willing to bet that will still be a great success and the beautiful (future applications, not those inherited from the iPhone) is yet to come.
Still on the theme of innovation and communication based on "body language" is hard not to be impressed by this video "concept" of Natal Microsoft:
Although the final product (sold in a few months) will not be very likely as efficient as it appears in the video (who tried the early version presented at CES 2010 in Las Vegas say that there is a lag between their movement and images on the video), will still be a significant step forward, not only for video games household.
Again, as with the Apple tablet, I think the opportunities of the new interface is enormous and still all to explore and invent, we will see some good.
