New tech moves beyond the mouse, keyboard and screen

[kazuya]

Goodbye computer mouse, keyboard and monitor.

Say hello to a new, simpler era of human-computer interaction -- this time, with no clunky hardware standing between you and digital information.

In this new world, there are options aplenty.

Instead of sliding a mouse across your desk, you could just point at whatever you'd like to select. Instead of pecking away at a keyboard, you could just say what you're thinking. And instead of glaring at a big screen all day, why not just project that information on the surface of your contact lenses?

None of this is science fiction. These ideas are here today, some of them in research labs and others already on store shelves.Video: No joystick required for Kinect

And, thanks to a remote-control-free video gaming system called Kinect, these futuristic concepts for computer-human communication are about to get a lot more popular, technology researchers said in interviews this week.

Microsoft's Kinect, which hits stores November 4, lets players control games by moving their bodies. To make a digital soccer player kick, you just swing your leg.

New tech moves beyond the mouse, keyboard and screen - CNN.com

[slikrapid]

much ado about nothing new, just some sensationalist reporter/journalist acting all excited about non-existing (or badly adapted, premature, inflated...) technology, dreaming about wild future prospects, yet in reality just promoting (propaganda/marketing) new products from M$ & co. that haven't even been tested to see what exactly do they offer in practical usage

a research assistant in the MIT Media Lab, said his goal is to get rid of computer hardware entirely -- so that people just interact directly with information.

"The hardware is becoming invisible," he said.

Ultimately, he said, the digital world will fold completely into the real one.

until one day new generations will have no idea what the real world actually is (some would say this has already happened), being trapped/addicted/ isolated/swindled with/into the digital illusions of artificially created virtual worlds of questionable value, not to mention it would be a dream come true for companies as they operate much better with illusory terms as opposed to physical ones, so one can imagine which 'world' would be preferable for them to act as the dominant one, and make no mistake, they will push hard to get it and push you to get to like it