{"id":102,"date":"2005-07-21T10:48:14","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T17:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2005-07-21T20:24:40","modified_gmt":"2005-07-22T03:24:40","slug":"tactile-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/21\/tactile-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tactile Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/tactapad.jpg\" width=\"117\" height=\"202\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"TactaPad image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I read about this before but didn&#8217;t really pay attention. This may not make <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carpal_Tunnel_Syndrome\" target=\"_blank\">carpal tunnel syndrome<\/a> a thing of the past, but it could take <del>porn surfing<\/del> personal computing to a whole new level. Imagine how much more effecient it would be to fully utilize both hands to perform the same tasks on the computer? Dang it, I want want one.<\/p>\n<p>It uses a camera as well as the tactile pad to track both motion and action of user&#8217;s hands. Forced feedback on the pad allows more precision and control on what&#8217;s going on. The company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tactiva.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Taciva<\/a> of California, is trying to find someone to license the technology for the mass market. My feeling is, &#8220;WHAT? It&#8217;s not licensed yet?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A couple of video demos can be found on the site. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianmain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brian<\/a> for the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read about this before but didn&#8217;t really pay attention. This may not make carpal tunnel syndrome a thing of the past, but it could take porn surfing personal computing to a whole new level. Imagine how much more effecient it would be to fully utilize both hands to perform the same tasks on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/21\/tactile-computing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tactile Computing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-mac-osx","category-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-1E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}