Saturday, June 12, 2004
Directly Drag & Drop to Different Devices
Posted by Jonathon Watkins in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 05:00 PM
The BBC reports that Sony's Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo has come up with a way of easily transferring information between devices such as laptops, mobile phones and PDAs:
"Dr Rekimoto's lab has extended the drag and drop technique used in most PC software to create a 'pick and drop' technique. So the owner of a handheld computer can pick up a file from their device, using a special pen, and drop it onto the screen of another computer, by placing the pen on its screen."
"Another technique that the labs has developed is referred to as 'pick and beam'. This uses displays projected onto tables and walls, using data projectors, that act as extended working spaces. Documents can be dragged using a special pen from a computer desktop into these spaces. There they can be spread out or exchanged, allowing people to work with them almost as if they were paper documents."
Interesting concept, though I wonder how useful this will really turn out to be. Describing this work being as important as the development of the mouse seems a little far fetched to me. Still, it's good to see that the boys in white lab coats are hard at work making the world a better place. Or at least makin sure that it contains more technologically advanced toys. :wink:
"Dr Rekimoto's lab has extended the drag and drop technique used in most PC software to create a 'pick and drop' technique. So the owner of a handheld computer can pick up a file from their device, using a special pen, and drop it onto the screen of another computer, by placing the pen on its screen."
"Another technique that the labs has developed is referred to as 'pick and beam'. This uses displays projected onto tables and walls, using data projectors, that act as extended working spaces. Documents can be dragged using a special pen from a computer desktop into these spaces. There they can be spread out or exchanged, allowing people to work with them almost as if they were paper documents."
Interesting concept, though I wonder how useful this will really turn out to be. Describing this work being as important as the development of the mouse seems a little far fetched to me. Still, it's good to see that the boys in white lab coats are hard at work making the world a better place. Or at least makin sure that it contains more technologically advanced toys. :wink:
