One thing that Nola, the head of the BattleBots high school program, tells all the kids is engineering is about solving problems.
Here’s one that may not necessarily be a problem, mostly because we’ve all become so used to it, but it can definitely use improvement, and that’s how we interact with computers.
The mouse has been the dominant tool for decades, but as the video below shows, it limits the many possibilities of our hands to only two coordinates. You don’t see Data clicking around with a mouse in Star Trek, right? It also explains that while touch screen works great with smart phones, it won’t translate into desktop computers.
10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.
This reminds me a lot of Minority Report. I still think keyboard shortcuts are the fastest and easiest way to get things done, but of course that has its limits.
The person who takes our interactions with computers to the next level might just be building a robot right now.
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