Well that’s it!  Everybody, well some of the experts anyway seem to agree that the ageing keyboard and mouse just isn’t going to cut it any more.  It’s just not a good enough way to communicate with our computers.  It’s slow and clunky, in fact the story goes that an alphabetical keyboard would be quicker to type [...]

Categories: Misc

The buzz word in computing in 2010 has been tablet, as popularised by Apple’s iPad.  This year we’ve seen tablets go on sale using Google’s Android operating system and Windows 7, and we’ve seen both RIM and HP announce specialised tablet operating systems for their own devices. During this time both Android and Windows 7 [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

Ubuntu is now the most prominent Linux distribution perhaps due to its philosophy of creating ‘”Linux for humans” and targeting the consumer first and foremost. With a regular 6 monthly release Ubuntu has been making leaps and bounds and the last release, Hardy Heron, began to make Linux actually look like a real alternative to [...]

Categories: Linux, Operating Systems

If you thought that the last Multi-touch technology videos that I have been showing here at Ghacks have been cool then you should see this one. This one is a presentation by Jeff Han who is a research scientist for NYU’s Media Research Lab during TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) 2006. Jeff Han describes his technique the following way: “Our technique is force-sensitive, and provides unprecedented resolution and scalability, allowing us to create sophisticated multi-point widgets for applications large enough to accommodate both hands and multiple users.”

Categories: Cool, Entertainment, Knowledge