Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 10th Feb 2008 22:20 UTC
Ken Hinckley from Microsoft Research has unofficially put together a prototype Tablet PC note-taking application designed and built from ground up around the pen. InkSeine (rhymes with 'insane'), which gives you the ability to easily search the web or your local computer directly from your ink. Although it's scheduled for a public release on February 15, 2008, Microsoft insists that it is not intended for public consumption: "InkSeine is a research demonstration only, and is not a Microsoft product, nor is it intended to become a product. It is just something we built as a pure research project to explore novel pen and ink functionality."
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2006-03-22
Is it just my imagination or did i just saw parts of BeOS GUI there?
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Anyway, i don't like idea of pen-only based device. It would be great if it was multi-touch screen AND pen. There's nothing better for operating GUI than fingers
But pen is better for writing text (maybe it's just because when we learn to write in early childhood, we use pen?).
Circle-based pop-up menus, and icons are already in use in games and some applications (there was even add-on for Firefox IIRC) so not much "new" there.
If nothing else, maybe this project will let them find out how to make really (or just a bit more than today) user-friendly interface.