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The Future of Lunch

What do Albert Einstein and Weird Al have in common, besides the first name?
I’ll give you a hint: Pythagoras (of geometrical fame) and Pamela Anderson (of bosomy fame) share the same trait.
Stumped? Here are a few more clues. Young women are most likely to be in this group, as are U.S. west-coast dwellers. […]

iPhones, Surface Computing - A New Way

Brenda’s previous blog rings true, and rather than adding a comment, let me add this way. The two major computing input forms, the qwerty keyboard and the mouse have been around since 1873 and 1981 respectively. Amazingly little has changed. Until now.
About five years ago at the University of Washington Human Interface […]

The Way We Interact

We typically talk to our computers through a set of buttons that transmit one letter of a command at a time, a mouse that can select whole words or phrases, and a smallish glass-like window where we see what we’re saying. We typically do that sitting down and a little hunched over – […]

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