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CES: Intel's touch desktop

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Posted by Patrick Burgoyne, 7 January 2010, 19:14    Permalink    Comments (5)

Despite the large amounts of cash obviously spent by the main exhibitors on their stands here at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, there aren't many doing much design-wise. But a touch-screen wall at the Intel stand has been drawing crowds.

UPDATE: Video below (thanks Chris in the comments for the link)

The World Live was created by Foghorn Creative in San Francisco. It comes out of internal research at Intel regarding what a future desktop might look like. There are 500 cubes. Each cube is a separate piece of data - either drawn from something on the hard drive or flive feeds from the net. The user configures the desktop however they like - they could choose to have everything coming from one site, for example, or be search results.

Touch each cube to bring up the information within. Recently pulled up items appear at the top of the screen.

I'll update this with video soon (hopefully)...

 

5 Comments

If that's the future of desktops... all jumbled... I think I'll stick to the traditional type. I like relatively organised desktops! I think the idea of having multiple 'points' - in this case cubes - is onto something, what with all the different apps on the iPhone etc that can be accessed from the main screen.
Luci
2010-01-08 09:05:09


It's the 3d/touchscreen equivalent of a really untidy computer desktop - you know those people who insist on having everything scattered over the desktop and not filed in folders in the system. Bleuggh. Nice interface I'm sure but surely just done to show off the touchscreen rather than be a serious attempt at the dektop of the future?
Steev
2010-01-08 11:55:40


ITS JUST A DEMO you CRETINS ! ! !
john
2010-01-08 12:20:21


cool U-Touch 120" ...i like
stu
2010-01-08 15:52:07


Mesmerising... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA0fmtAB5Ck
Chris
2010-01-08 19:40:20


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