How about a pen that you can use to *edit* Wikipedia? No, wait, that takes longer than typing doesn't it?
I'm waiting for the app that let's you edit Wikipedia just by *thinking* (or indeed any application that you can use just by thinking - some are sort of available already for paraplegics, but the technology is still in its infancy). http://www.technoscan.com/tracking.php?ID=15 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-computer_interaction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroprosthetics None of those seem to cover eyeball movement technology. This does, but not the application to paraplegics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_tracking Here's an interesting page (and an interesting wiki site as well): http://abilitynet.wetpaint.com/page/Eye+Pointing The closest I could get to anything similar on Wikipedia was one line here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_technology But I'm probably searching using the wrong terms. Carcharoth On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Bob the Wikipedian > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dot paper (while I'm not completely sure what it is) is apparently a >> crucial element in utilizing the smartpen. > > From what I've heard, dot paper is paper with tiny dots that the > digital pen can use to orient itself. The idea is you write stuff with > the pen, and you can see what you've written (it's a normal pen), but > you also create an electronic trace (thanks to the dots). Throw some > OCR at that, and some storage, and it's pretty easy to do this > Wikipedia app. > > Question is: why would this be useful? Seems a weird use case: waste > dot paper writing the name of the article I want to look up, rather > than just searching for it on my smartphone... > > Incidentally, as far back as 2001 I remember exchange students having > pens that let you scan a printed word, and it would look up that text, > and give you the definition. So it's not particularly cutting edge > technology. > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
