Concept Computer Based on a Tea Cup Design 166
webarnold writes "A new concept computer is being designed to look like a tea cup. Using holographic projectors, view your data inside the cup, 'spilled' onto the table, or transfer it to other Cup PC users by pouring data into their cup." Acceptance of something like this seems a bit far-fetched given current tech, but no nomad-space comparisons are being made.
This story is stupid (Score:5, Insightful)
The Future Looks Bright (Score:2, Insightful)
Ster-il-ize
Ster-il-ize
Re:Infinite improbability machine created... (Score:3, Insightful)
Something gives me good reason to believe this is a graphical artist's concept and nothing more.
I'm reminded of Sci-Fi's viral marketing videos of a woman in an airplane seeing a UFO
Instant destruction (Score:5, Insightful)
Try telling me that's not gonna happen.
Yawn (Score:5, Insightful)
99.99% of what we take for granted today in data manipulation ergonomics is incremental improvements brought about by REAL experts in ergonomics who observe REAL people using REAL computers.
Re:Infinite improbability machine created... (Score:5, Insightful)
Outside the Box (Score:4, Insightful)
They laughed at Edwin Land (Score:5, Insightful)
Is this Slashdot? You sound like a bunch of klutzes who wouldn't know how to get into their cars if they locked the keys inside. Who wouldn't know how to fix their glasses if the frames broke.
It's called a concept. Ed Land, the founder of Polaroid, gave his engineers a block of wood small enough to fit into a back pocket, and told them to build an instant camera that size. And they didn't whine about how the technology wasn't ready for it, they built it! And that camera revolutionized p0rn.
If you can't build a holographic projector inside a teacup with $50 worth of parts, get out of the way for somebody who can.
Polaroid was a good idea. (Score:3, Insightful)
It's not that we don't have the technology -- that's only part of it. It's that we don't have the technology, and it's a retarded idea in the first place.
How do I choose what data is "poured"? And once I do so, why do I have to actually watch it being poured? Why is "spilling" better than simply pushing a button on a projector? It looks like a portable holographic multitouch interface, which is very cool -- but WTF is with the coffee concept?
This is more like Ed Land giving his engineers a baseball and telling them to not only build an instant camera that size, but in that shape, and instead of pressing a shutter button, you throw it at what you're trying to take a picture of. It's an interesting idea, by why would you want to ever use it? And who would pay for someone to design it?
cellphone with projector more practical (Score:2, Insightful)