Digital Desk

by Pierre Wellner, 1991. Some of the "Envisionment" simulations were also implemented in the EuroParc during this project.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Xerox
• Europarc
• UbiComp

[ThaChazo]

If you have an Iphone or a touchscreen phone at home you do. This is the concept behind it all.

[leucipo2001]

Dont forget the webcam, the OCR and the gesture recognizer.... No , we haven't it at home yet.

[FoxMulder84]

He's the best researcher I've ever known ! :D

[leucipo2001]

he has its own page now, look at "related videos"

[twocsies]

Pierre Wellner, 1991, you are infringing on Apple's IP which was patented in 2007!!! Shame on you.

[twocsies]

Apple was going to sue themselves for infringing their own patent, but then Steve Jobs realised that since they have already patented infringing your own patent...

[Evi1M4chine]

I find the idea of forcing a computer (the most powerful and free machine any normal human will ever come in contact with) into a primitive, limited and outdated ”desktop” metaphor deeply disturbing. What you want is something which is not a computer. An *appliance* or a *gadget*. Like the iPhone.

So don’t fuck up real actual computers for people who still know what their point is (to *automate* your work away *yourself*) and how to use them.

[tmbdev]

@leucipo2001 Whether Apple infringed is for the lawyers to decide. The question is whether Apple is as innovative as they claim, and turns out very little of what Apple puts into their products was originally invented at Apple. They do good engineering, though.

[LBrocklehurst]

hahaha turn on Transcribe Audio and go to 4:35

[PreciousRobot]

Lol at old technology.

[srle12]

Another genius ahead of his time. realtime visual pattern recognition, gestures and though out multitouch uses in 1991 when MS and Apple were still deciding how many mouse buttons to use - that's incredible. Though others now make money out of it.

[leucipo2001]

:-DDD

And dont forget NeXT corportation.

[leucipo2001]

Actually it is a lot more obscure, twocsies. Note that Wellner is working for Xerox in this prototype, and that Xerox and Apple signed some kind of IP sharing agreemeng in 1981 or 1982, allowing Apple to produce the Lisa and Macintosh series.