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shorthair:
Some of you might've seen this already. It's only half a joke in that there will be stuff like this, though hopefully they'll only be interfaces connected to the network. Of course, as was predicted in David Brin's fiction novel EARTH and in Howard Reingold's VIRTUAL REALITY, and is already possible but not fashionable, people will wear things like 'shutter glasses' (transparent, but able to display images, also) that will do these sorts of things, and more.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/clips/microsoft-surface-the-parody-270782.php

boykster:
Funny parody, but your commentary relating everything to scifi books is getting old.

shardian:

--- Quote from: boykster on June 22, 2007, 02:36:04 pm ---Funny parody, but your commentary relating everything to scifi books is getting old.



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And if you take his penchant for Hard Sci-fi and also his strange sexual related posts, I would bet money that shorthair's favorite Sci-Fi series is the Ringworld trilogy. (I'm right aren't I? ;))

shorthair:
shar: never read it. From what I've heard from everyone, it seemed like more fantasy than I'm generally interested in. At least, most who've told me about it read fantasy vs SF. But, if it's the latter, I don't know if Ringworld could qualify as 'hard' SF. EARTH does, though.

boyk: only EARTH is SF. VIRTUAL REALITY is non-fiction. In any case, I'm always thinking about interface and function. The point of the parody is, using something huge and expensive vs a hand-held device. My point extends beyond that.

NightGod:

--- Quote from: shorthair on June 22, 2007, 02:25:45 pm ---Some of you might've seen this already. It's only half a joke in that there will be stuff like this, though hopefully they'll only be interfaces connected to the network. Of course, as was predicted in David Brin's fiction novel EARTH and in Howard Reingold's VIRTUAL REALITY, and is already possible but not fashionable, people will wear things like 'shutter glasses' (transparent, but able to display images, also) that will do these sorts of things, and more.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/clips/microsoft-surface-the-parody-270782.php

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You do realize that the joke is in the voice over, not the device itself, right? These are slated for release from Microsoft 4Q2007.

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