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Look at me when I talk to you

Posted by Jon Peddie on February 16th 2010 | Discuss
Tags: computers text-to-speech listen mips speech

About ten years ago, I wrote an editorial suggesting our PCs could, and should, look at and listen to us. And when they did they would be able to see if we were happy, angry, sad, impatient, or bored. They would know when we were dictating a memo, story, or email, and when we were giving them commands to open a file or get a program. I even went so far as to suggest eye-tracking as a replacement for the mouse. I never suggested hand waving as an alternative input mechanism because of my experience many years ago with a light-pen.…

The middle ground—is there one or many?

Posted by Jon Peddie on February 3rd 2010 | Discuss
Tags: nvidia apple intel ipad tablet newton os

When Steve Jobs presented the iPad, he set up the premise that we have smart phones, and we have laptops, and there is a gap between them that should be filled. As he made his presentation, I thought, I just saw this presentation a few weeks ago in Las Vegas. Jen-Hsun Huang did it at CES. Huang said the exact same things, and showed tablets that would fit in the middle. And then I thought about Intel, who also wanted to fill the perceived middle. Intel called it a mobile Internet device—MID. Intel wasn’t successful in creating that category, but a…