From: Ed Kummel (tech_ed_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 17 2004 - 15:08:27 PST
Devices like this P*ss me off!
they take what could be amazing technology and cripple
it with archaic tools like a keyboard...Nothing sucks
worse than a micro-keyboard that you punch on with
your thumbs...RSI anyone?
I see things like this and all I can think of is that
it promotes the dumbing down of the user.
Instead of making the device simple to use by
interfacing it in an intuitive manner with the user,
they make the user simple by reducing the capabilities
of the device's interface that the user has to use!
It just plain sucks.
As a person who lives "technologist", devices like
this just make me shake my head and think, as a
society, we're doomed..
Ed
web/gadget guru
http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
--- Luiz Petroni <lpetroni_at_compassoarte.com.br> wrote:
> Thomas,
>
> Take a look at this device which also comes to the
> handheld computer.
> Unfortunatelly it does not do hwr but has a
> keyboard/touchpad combo
> which seems usable.
>
> http://www.flipstartpc.com/
>
> BTW, it is produced by Vulcan (read Paul Allen >
> Microsoft).
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