The beam splitters and lenses are represented by physical objects, and the system projects down the laser beam path.

Hit me.

Google the App Engine Datastore actually has some of these limitations.

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When they're laid out, I can pull things to new locations or delete things or just quickly sort a whole pile, you know, just immediately, right?

It's completely intuitive there's no instruction manual.

We have so much technology nowadays that these interfaces should start conforming to us.

The sensors that are used can see through the dark, the fog and rain.

We have perception, computation and non visual interfaces.

There's no interface, again. It really allows anybody to kind of go in and it just does what you'd expect, you know?

The term Widget refers to the basic building block of a computer program's interface.

So this is a musical interface built by a student from Italy, and he's now turning this into a product.

I'm telling you it's there.

What's really interesting here is what you can do with it and the kind of interfaces you can build on top of it.

Now, this is an interesting little message, and it's a lesson that has since, I think, been forgotten or lost or something, and that is, namely, that the OS is the interface.

I can do it simultaneously, holding this down, and gripping on another one, stretching this out.

And, so, we have what I think is the easiest to use and I hope most enjoyable subtitling interface anywhere.

Directive

So for this, we developed many different types of non visual user interface technology.

We're 25, 26 years after the advent of the Macintosh, which was an astoundingly seminal event in the history of human machine interface and in computation in general.

There's also companies like Google that are using the technology to create interfaces between mobile phones, tablets and the real world.

Then, on the side, we've got the Web and, increasingly, the cloud, which is fantastic, but also in the regard in which an interface is fundamental kind of a distraction.

We're not accessing it.

I thought, Why can I not connect the normal interface of a physical sticky note to the digital world?

I mean it's been 25 years.

So we're moving away from the instructional cue devices, and we're now focusing more on the informational devices.

As you can see, I can use the same two fingered gestures to go down and go in really seamlessly.

But Alex was preparing a little, sort of obscure, indie, arthouse film called Minority Report for Steven Spielberg, and invited us to come out from MlT and design the interfaces that would appear in that film.

It's a great example of the kind of research I really love all this compute power to make things do the right things, intuitive things, to do exactly what you expect.

So I'd like to show you a few examples, because there are many possible applications for this new interface.

We just came up with that on the spot, it's probably not the right thing to do, but there's such interesting things you can do with this interface.

And one of the reasons why I think that is will be helped by things like graphics and visualization and inference tools, but I also think a big part of it is going to be having better interfaces, to be able to drill down into this kind of data, while still thinking about the big picture here.

So if we call square root of 2, for instance

We essentially added 100 cash, and we added a 100 liability

Just imagine, in a classroom a teacher writes on the blackboard and a blind student can see what's written and read using these non visual interfaces.

A computer magician can write this thing. It can be compiled into zeros and ones and pronounced by a computer.

You think they'll arrest him?

They'll trust me.

They'll kill you, you know that. Your survival is unlikely.

It is gross.

The DOM is an interface to the structure of an HTML.document, for example, the head or body element.

'h' is equal to 3 and the length of the prism is equal to 4 so i'm assuming it is this dimension right over here is equal to 4 so length is equal to four so in this situation what you really just have to do is figure out the area of this triangle right over here we could figure out the area of this triangle and multiply it by how much you go deep so multiply it by this length so the volume is going to be the area of this triangle

Well we need a neural interface, a way to connect to our nervous system or our thought processes so that it's intuitive, it's natural,

The minus 3, or the negative 3 plus the 3, those will cancel out.

Most of the time, the cell senses mistakes and shuts itself down, or the system detects a troublemaker and eliminates it.