After a month with the iPod Touch I want to touch my desktop screen, my laptop screen and even the glass on the scanner. This touchy-feely aberration makes reaching for the mouse seem obsolete. Even before the iPad is available in the USA, let alone poor cousin Australia, I’m already asking when my work software will have this innovation.
I am already feeling an inclination to touch my monitor rather than reach for the mouse. With text, paragraphs move around the screen effortlessly. In music software, I push and point chord symbols, copy tracks. Using the thumb and finger technique of expanding, I open a track, edit notes, return to the score. I am a genius.
I sense that the ubiquitous mouse is on the endangered species, and as a mouse induced RSI sufferer I can think of no rodent more deserving of eradication.
Finger touch won’t be available everywhere however. I realise that rubbing a finger across my car window won’t open or close it. That it’s a 1985 Ford possibly has something to do with this. Similarly forgetting my keys to the office in the morning won’t be rectified by a quick swipe across the glass of the front door.
Perhaps we are still a long way from open sesame, but with the right fingertouch or swipe who knows where you’ll be able to go in the future.
8 responses so far ↓
Rosie // February 22, 2010 at 7:43 am |
Y’know, I think I must be the only person out there who isn’t in love with touch technology.
gigdiary // February 22, 2010 at 6:39 pm |
One touch, and that’s all it takes…. you’ll never mouse again….
fender4eva // February 23, 2010 at 3:48 am |
Nah, sorry Gig. I’ve used touch screens, and all you end up with is sticky fingerprints all over. I’ll stick to a mouse, even if it’s a Magic Mouse……
gigdiary // February 24, 2010 at 8:49 pm |
You’ve got to stop eating those jam sandwiches before you touch and play…Rule of Mac#11
gigdiary // February 24, 2010 at 8:58 pm |
I haven’t tried the Magic Mouse yet, but thanks for reminding me. I’m due for a trip up to the Apple shop. It’s certainly a step along the way. For touch screens to be accepted in a big way, they’d have to redefine the vertical screen model, incorporate the joy of the iPad, and still provide a keyboard.
Do you reckon I’ll live long enough to see it, Fender?
wollywally // February 24, 2010 at 10:55 am |
I am intrigued by it, love ooxx
Rosie // February 26, 2010 at 12:11 pm |
Having given it a bit more thought, the issue for me is that I have used touchscreens for so long at work, I am over them.
fender4eva // February 27, 2010 at 1:42 am |
Gig, you have many gadget playing with years ahead of you. I have lived to see cameras go from Box Brownies to 12 megapixels of technology. I hope to progress from a PC to an iMac. Now that’s a REAL advance! I am so over Microsoft………..