Remember Minority Report...?

Originally Posted by sprouticus

I could actually see this being practical for video editing. It would be beautifully robust and intuitive to have all of your media and tools at your fingertips. Fuck yeah, this would be a wonderful interface for that. It would give a whole new meaning to the term "flatbed editing."

Everything else just seems masturbatory.

Exactly.

What they showed here is little more than a glorified piece of "future technology", trying to wow people with new things that have a novelty interest period of about a half hour with virtually no practicality whatsoever. The video did all to show you can resize photos, look at maps and grids.

Wow, it's a big, non portable iphone.

And speaking of which, apple already has this technology in use. $100,000 media wall? You've got to be fucking kidding me. Apple will likely have a new wave of imacs out in a year or two with the touch-screen technology, and like sprout said, I'd absolutely love to be edit on Final Cut Pro with that sort of tech. But that's basically all it's useful for. Music Composition? Midi interface keyboard. Illustration? Wacom tablet. Editing is like the only thing I could see it being useful in.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Nall

I could also see teachers using this with some sort of free-drawing software in place of blackboards, but universities, let alone public schools, wouldn't be able to afford them for several years.

Our school's classrooms basically have the same thing. Smartboards, or whatnot. There's just a bunch of digital dry erase markers (red, blue and green one) that they use to free draw or write notes in an office based program. But there's usually calibrated really bad and rather unused.

There's nowhere I can't reach.