Con10uium...

...or something. Well worth a look if you're iterested in new multi-toch tech stuff.

http://vimeo.com/6712657

*touch

interesting...

Looks cool.

Not sure how usable it would be in practice.

The whole ordered window thing seems to be solving a non-existent problem while creating more problems to be honest.

WTF? Windows are a serious problem, particularly in OSX, I have to go on window killing missions all the time.

Spose if you only use the internet and email you don't have that problem

its just multitouch with the windows 'attached' horizontally

less "completely new" and more "quite like the old one, but different"

I love technology shit like this, I really do. I'm all about the Star Trek / Minority Report / Demolition Man high tech futuristic stuff that looks cool, BUT:

I can't help thinking you're right. Its not revolutionary, its a little evolutionary, but it really does seem to be a solution looking for a problem

I'd go fucking nuts if I relied on the mouse to do everything. Knowing a even few keyboard shortcuts (which very helpfully MS have copied most of them in recent versions of windows, no more alt+F4 to close a window for example but cmd/ctrl+w) and hotspot corners for expose, I mostly don't have any issues navigating around.

I see some potential in that system, but a little bit sceptical of the side docking too. There will me times that would become a pain in the arse, like perhaps dragging and dropping between documents.

Loving my 2 monitors, and I could imagine that system get tweaked so the second monitor allows more room for a dock of running apps or something. I dunno, haven't put much thought into it.

alt-f4 desn't close a window, it closes an app. these days there's basically no difference between the two, but in days gone by, that was a difference between the two different key combos. ctrl-f4 was the same as ctrl-w.

and both of those haven't been copied recently at all, they've been in every version of windows i've ever used, as far back as 3.0, but fairly sure 2.1 had them too.

The problem they present is windows are non-ordered and cluttered.

Ordering just makes it suck even more.

I stand corrected. And slightly surprised. I thought Vista introduced ctrl+w.

There are others though that made their debut in vista..

Which other ones? I can only think of Windows+Tab for Flip3D. Pretty much every other Windows+ combo has existed since 95.

ctrl+n opens a new window in explorer. It didn't in xp last time I checked.
It's behaviour is slightly different from osx but I'll spare the details.

http://lifehacker.com/5390086/the-master-list-of-new-windows-7-shortcuts


Some interesting new ones in there, but also a bunch that certainly aren't new.

some pretty cool shortcuts in there. Rather like win + arrows.