[Geowanking] comments on the touchidot video

[stephen white]

On 20/09/2008, at 8:45 AM, Anselm Hook wrote:
> Those questions about how capable the tonchidot solution is - and  
> things like skew and orientation and the like - probably all can be  
> answered if you just look at the SIFT algorithm  - as a good  
> baseline example of a computer vision approach:


What I find depressing is the enthusiasm over Tonchidot when all the  
pieces have been waiting to be put together for years. The only new  
element here is the iPhone, which is a mobile phone that can actually  
be programmed (as opposed to Symbian, which pretends to be  
programmable).

Why does it take a not very good implementation of something to fire  
off these excited messages, rather than us being excited about what we  
could do? I know that some of the people here are doing interesting  
things, but they (and me) are individuals who can't do as much as a  
group of people.

Then again, I also find it depressing that Microsoft have wall to wall  
PhDs and produced Clippy as a result. Google have wall to wall PhDs to  
write copies of Office in a browser.

Where's my flying car?!

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   steve at adam.com.au