Variations of control technology
- Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 7:03
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What we have here today is a review of the way we stay connected, interact and control the devices around us and what we can expect the future to bring us. Interactive technology has been forgoing changes since the time of its inception. A decade ago the idea of a touch enabled MP3 player or a mobile phone was a delusion and now it’s just old news. Our norm today is based on touch screen devices with minimal physical control.
With the inception of the Wii from Nintendo we moved on to motion enabled control systems which enabled us to better interact with an interface. It revolutionized the way we play games and we let go of the keyboard, mouse and the keypad however these old technologies will always remain as our last resort. Taking a glimpse at the near future we see the speech and the voice recognition systems being upgraded and made more user-friendly.
The latest speech recognition system from Nuance known as dragon may soon be applied to our cell phones and MP3 players. Since the launch of Vista speech recognition has been improved and we see the Windows 7 which enables us to use voice commands to control the OS. Now coming back to the touch function we see that daily improvisations are being made on this technology which we see by our smart phones and laptops.
Microsoft’s latest surface technology will take over most peripherals in a few years to come. Dragging, pinching, flickering and rotating objects, files and images on a screen seem like an insurgency in the touch technology. Not to forget the use of gestures to command a device has been latent in the corner, however much progress is being made to commercialize the gesture enabled technology and it would be soon enough when you can flick your fingers to boot your laptop.
Microsoft’s Natal uses the combination of motion, speech recognition and gesture recognition to enable users to control the environment around them. Finally we land upon the future of gadgetry control where we use our eyes and muscles to interact with an interface. Desktop PC, smartphones and digital cameras will soon be implementing this technology.
However we know that nothing can or will abolish the use of the keyboard, mouse and the keypad but we will be harnessing all this new technology to control the devices we use every day. As technology advances our devices will be perfected and will have a better understanding of what we want from the device. When your Smartphone literally stops you from buying a laptop you would than know that you have reached a new level.
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