'Cut and Paste' Is Out, 'Pick and Drop' Is In 327
Roland Piquepaille writes "How do you exchange a file with a colleague or a photograph with a family member? Chances are that you cut the desired element and paste it into your e-mail program to send it. Now, imagine yourself in a meeting, picking a file on your PDA with a digital pen and using the same pen to drop it on your friend's laptop screen. This is exactly what Jun Rekimoto and his team at Sony Interaction Laboratory have developed with their 'pick and drop' technique. BBC News looks at this project in Digital pen takes on mouse. Because it's based on cheap and existing components, such a system might be released in the near future, though Sony hasn't announced any plans to do it. You'll find more details and pictures in this overview."
That's great and all, but.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Old news (Score:1, Funny)
Unless you mean "picking and dropping" it out of a window.. yes.
I wish! (Score:4, Funny)
I don't know about your friends but I've got some real winners who just keep forwarding until the original info is nested 40 layers deep. argh!
I've been using pick and drop forever... (Score:4, Funny)
I can see it now... (Score:5, Funny)
But what about... (Score:2, Funny)
Ah, for the days of sitting in Dad's lap, watching HeeHaw, admiring the cowgirls.
Re:Will it work on linux? (Score:2, Funny)
1) No, it will be a propietary atrac thing which will take five hours to convert an rtf doc into a protected atrac file before 'conveniently' dropping into your colleague's laptop
2) of course they will, it will be in the next upgrade plugin distribution for media player, but nobody using any of ten public serials will be allowed to use it
3) Yes, all ps3 and psps will be bundled with one of these pense. And,
4) No.
What would be really cool... (Score:5, Funny)
That would be cool!
I'm oldschool (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The question (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The question (Score:2, Funny)
That's ok, it wasn't funny anyway.
Re:Will it work on linux? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Will it work on linux? (Score:3, Funny)
Instead of a pen put an RFID chip in your finger.. (Score:2, Funny)
Sorry, but I'll always prefer PIAFI... (Score:2, Funny)
Huh? (Score:2, Funny)
* Pick file up using pen
* Buy stamps and envelope
* Mail pen to friend
* fried puts on screen
What a fucked up system,
Re:Transmission Vector (Score:2, Funny)
Where have I heard that before?
Oh yeah: my first wife.
Re:Novelty? (Score:4, Funny)
You can poke people in the eye with it! That will get the point across:-).
Re:Tom!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Right, we know. Did you forget which web site you were on?
Re:Tom!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Once I was on a long trip and I decided to make a stop at one of those rest areas on the side of the road. I go in the bathroom. The first stall was taken so I went into the second stall. I had just sat down when I heard a voice from the next stall...
"Hi there, how is it going?"
OK, I am not the type to strike conversations with strangers in bathrooms on the side of the road. I didn't know what to say, but I replied:
"Not bad I guess."
Then the voice says:
"So, what are you doing?"
I am starting to find this a bit weird, but I say:
"Well, I'm going back east to see some friends and just try to relax..."
Then I hear the person say:
"Look, I'm going to have to call you back. Every time I ask you a question, some idiot in the next stall keeps answering."