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When a user accesses The Warble website, only the publication’s title and a white screen are visible, but as the user moves his or her mouse over the blank space, different works of art become visible, disappearing and reappearing as the cursor travels across the computer screen. “The goal of it was simplicity,” Wright says of The Warble’s interactive aspect, “because it sort of allows you to focus on one thing at a time, which is kind of cool, and also you don?...
Cooler yet is the touch pad's iPhone-like gesture system. Drag one to four fingers across the surface to perform a variety of tasks--move your cursor, zoom, scroll through documents, even navigate among alternate desktops you can create on your machine...
...touchscreen experience with two other features designed to separate navigation and confirmation, which, Lazaridis told TIME, is the trademark of the Storm. One is the virtual keyboard: each letter lights up as you tap it so you know instantly whether you hit the right key. The second is the cursor: as you move your finger across the screen, a small arrow - which looks like a mouse cursor - appears to show exactly where your finger is pointed. Then, to confirm your selections, you push down on the entire screen...
...visual interface that will enable illiterate or semiliterate people to use a PC instantly, with minimal training. Another project of ours lets an entire classroom full of students use a single computer; we've developed software that lets each student use her own mouse to control a specially colored cursor so that as many as 50 kids can use one computer at the same time. This is a big advance for schools where there aren't enough computers to go around, and it serves a market we hadn't examined before...
...LOVE The cursor is a "smart" navigator that knows what options you need at any given time