Saturday, March 20, 2010

Futuristic glass

Cutting-edge future advanced technologies
Interactive smart glass interface

Film is either the film reel or projection screen. In the early Malayan TV industry, the projection screen is called layar (which means film). We have terms like layar perak (silver screen) but rarely layar emas (golden screen) or layar hitam (black screen). There maybe other screen or film colours, maybe layar biru (blue film).

Glass is kaca in Malay. So we have terms like kaca piring (a fragrant white flower which resembles the rose), kaca mata for eyeglasses or spectacles, or point of view.

Mirror or cermin is hardly used but highly meaningful in the IT context.

Touchscreen uses a special glass that can sense and is intelligent enough to respond to fingertip touches. Interactive software governs all onscreen touches and recognizes the user.

Some touchscreens are small and others can be as big as a room wall. Size will depend on applications.

A consultation room may have a large touchscreen on a wall or on all walls or several touchscreens of various sizes for different applications.

The smart mobile phone has the smallest touchscreen today.

Future touchscreen tables may have embedded glass touchscreens to serve as multisensors for immediate auto-scanning of paper documents for direct capture into laptops.

Bedside tables in hospitals may have smart glass table tops that can detect medicine bottles placed on them. They serve to help inform patients when it is time to take their medications. Patients can also interact with their medication schedules on their bedside tables by touch-activated touchscreen that shows up only when activated and called for by the patients at the patients' convenience..


Source: http://www.svennerberg.com/2009/06/mobile-first-person-user-interfaces/

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