Will our kids laugh at us for using mice?

October 14th, 2009 admin

I like what I’m seeing in this nicely-styled animation which argues why today’s modus operandi of computing (the mouse) should be as dead as that spell-checked Latin I just used. The author of this propagand-o-mation describes the video as “my crazy summer project to reinvent desktop human-computer interaction” , but thats obviously down-playing his presentation and ideas quite a bit. In less than 3 days he’s already gotten 151,000 views on Vimeo, so he’s onto something.  Check it out…


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