[LAU] turn your tablet into a real physical interface

[david]

On 10/31/2014 02:37 AM, Paul Davis wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Raphaël Mouneyres <rmouneyres at gmail.com
> <mailto:rmouneyres at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     hopefully, the article mentions this more a kind of "proof of
>     concept" than a real product.
>     If we start to build real knobs on top of tactile interfaces instead
>     of building hardware interfaces, then we completely loose our minds
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> 10 years ago you could get knobs that would "stick" onto a
> laptop/monitor screen and sent control data. Nothing new under the sun.
> That was actually a real product. I'm 99.9% certain that the company who
> did it is out of business.

Knobs and sliders that you could stick onto a tablet surface would make 
it very easy to arrange your layout the way you wanted, instead of how 
the product engineer decided he or she wanted it.

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