Sometimes if I work for long stretches at a time, my wrists, elbows, or shoulders start to hurt. I blame mousing mostly, and typing on the keyboard to a lesser extent
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Pretty sure google calendar does the drag+drop, stretch to resize calendar events. The only thing missing is the touch screen.
although, I have to say - as cool as direct-manupulation is, the mouse itself is actually kind of a genius idea - you have WAY more sensitivity than you'll ever have with just a finger, and the speed/accel/resolution is all adjustable, which you can't do with a touchscreen.
Imagine touchscreen came out first, and somebody came up with a genius invention where you could manipulate the entire screen without your wrist leaving the desk. Higher accuracy means less real-estate dedicated to window controls and menus. If we hadn't already grown so used to the mouse, it would be the invention of the year.
How sensitive is your mouse? I can go the entire width of my screen in about 3" of mousepad - if you have to move your hand every time you want to get to a menu, that would explain the arm stress.
Hmm . . . I know that there are stylus-based interfaces that might do some of what you seem to want. HP has the iPAQ, I think if you Googled stylus, you'd probably get a ton of results, too. The two hands thing is a no go, though. Most touchscreens can only deal with one/two input at a time.
I think that Apple will probably come up with something like this, and has applications in their latest OS that are similar to what you are talking about. They just need a touchscreen Macbook, or touchscreen screen.
I'm pretty sure my teres major gets really screwed up by mousing. At least, there's this lump that really hurts - the massage therapist says it's the power behind the fine motor control of the fingers and hand.
Anyway, I think if you were committed, you could get the pony a lot sooner and for a much lower cost than the pseudo-physical display you want.
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although, I have to say - as cool as direct-manupulation is, the mouse itself is actually kind of a genius idea - you have WAY more sensitivity than you'll ever have with just a finger, and the speed/accel/resolution is all adjustable, which you can't do with a touchscreen.
Imagine touchscreen came out first, and somebody came up with a genius invention where you could manipulate the entire screen without your wrist leaving the desk. Higher accuracy means less real-estate dedicated to window controls and menus. If we hadn't already grown so used to the mouse, it would be the invention of the year.
How sensitive is your mouse? I can go the entire width of my screen in about 3" of mousepad - if you have to move your hand every time you want to get to a menu, that would explain the arm stress.
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I think that Apple will probably come up with something like this, and has applications in their latest OS that are similar to what you are talking about. They just need a touchscreen Macbook, or touchscreen screen.
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Anyway, I think if you were committed, you could get the pony a lot sooner and for a much lower cost than the pseudo-physical display you want.
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