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Post by 8bitbluemage on Jul 20, 2007 16:23:37 GMT -5
I feel special now. Was Ohio really the first to have puplic touch screen technology?
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Post by Kyle20 on Jul 24, 2007 7:45:16 GMT -5
Back from short 5-day vacation.
I've never seen those games here in New York. However, I saw something exactly like that in an arcade in Florida this past week. The touch screen sucked.
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Post by 8bitbluemage on Jul 24, 2007 11:12:17 GMT -5
It was the first touch screen used for games. Of course it sucked. Although it was rather innovative before the DS was conjured.
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Post by Kyle20 on Jul 24, 2007 12:35:18 GMT -5
Don't think that the DS has the best touch screen in the world, for it most definitely doesn't.
And plus, touch screens are used all over. ATMs and such.
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Post by 8bitbluemage on Jul 24, 2007 13:23:31 GMT -5
Yeah, but we're talking late 90s here.
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Post by Kyle20 on Jul 24, 2007 14:05:07 GMT -5
So? The touch screen was invented in 1971, and have been used in ATMs, PDAs, and even computers alot since then. Neither the DS nor the arcade-thingy you're talking about are the first machines to have touch screens, nor are they the first to become popular.
However, I'm not saying that touch screens aren't getting increasingly more popular lately with things like the DS and the iPhone. They are. But those things, and things like Microsoft Surface, aren't completely new.
Surface's touch screen isn't what's amazing at all. It's how it'll be used, whether or not it'll have an everyday home use, and how it'll be compatible with other electronic devices that makes it more revolutionary.
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Post by 8bitbluemage on Jul 24, 2007 16:00:54 GMT -5
Okay then. Got it. I probably won't post in here anymore unless I feel the need.
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Post by Kyle20 on Jul 24, 2007 16:11:57 GMT -5
You WILL feel the need. And you know it.
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Post by Cutter on Jul 25, 2007 2:07:58 GMT -5
Limited by dial-up, too lazy to watch the video. All I know it that it's some sort of surface with a touch-screen that can detect stuff. Cool.
Like you said, it can definitely be compared to early computers. Eventually, the technology will become cheaper, it'll have more and more uses, and it'll slowly gain popularity until it's used everywhere.
We'll also see stuff like this in other devices. I've seen fridges that download recipes online and display them on a little screen... So things like that, in the sense that technology is being crammed into everyday devices to give them more use.
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Post by Kyle20 on Jul 25, 2007 8:53:21 GMT -5
Exactly. I want my Tic-Tac container to have internet browsers on it. I want it and I want it now.
My only problem is, if you're gonna add things like motion sensors and stuff, they have work. And they have to be good. I'm getting sick and tired of the public restrooms with the toliets and sinks with the motion-control that rarely works. Then you can't flush, and it takes you about 3 sinks to find one where water will actually run.
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Post by Cutter on Jul 26, 2007 1:12:13 GMT -5
Those motion detecting taps suck. Once you get them to work, they randomly turn off while you're washing your hands.
It just comes down to how it's implemented... Like, a packet of Tic-Tacs might not be able to browse the internet, instead they're do something annoying like display different ads on a little screen. Alternatively, cigarettes would have those government warnings that smoking kills and all that flashing on the sides.
But it still leaves a lot of possibilities. Like MP3 players that are just headphones.
... This is big thinking, but I think that cars will drive themselves at some point. You'd tell it where you want to go, and the car would drive itself on AI. That way a car is just designed to entertain you while you get from point A to point B. That's probably the biggest example I can think of. It leaves the possibility of AI messing up and people getting hurt, but eventually it'd be perfected and everyone would use it. People wouldn't die in car crashes, wouldn't have to worry about getting lost trying to find a certain place, world is a better place.
We're nowhere near that point yet, but like I said, it's big thinking. We'll see smaller examples of it as technology gets better and better.
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Post by Kyle20 on Jul 26, 2007 7:40:10 GMT -5
Sometimes I think the motion sensors PURPOSELY turn the water off, as part of their revenge against humankind. ...............>_>
Yeah, the car thing will probably become an issue. It makes sense, has a lot of benefits (like you said,) and is the next logical progression for cars, but that's just asking for some sort of Sci-Fi-ish thing to go wrong.
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Post by Cutter on Jul 26, 2007 9:35:28 GMT -5
... Then the robots rebel against mankind and slaughter the entire human race.
Because of all those movies, it'll take a long time before 'revolutionary' things like the car are actually possible.
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Post by Kyle20 on Jul 26, 2007 9:42:51 GMT -5
Because everyone's paranoid about Sci-Fi. Then again, in some cases, they have the right to be.
For instance, robots. Robots are cool, but I would NEVER buy one.
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Post by Cutter on Jul 26, 2007 22:12:12 GMT -5
I wouldn't buy an actual humanoid robot, but I wouldn't mind robots with limited AI... Like more advanced versions of those little cleaning things that move back and forth across the floor. They're completely harmless, unless you're worried about them stealing your spare change.
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