Every once in a while a break through comes and often its from the designers at Apple. The “Magic Mouse” is really novel and may end the Apple legacy of crappy mice. While achieving all the high Apple ID standards, they have raised the HCI bar by opening the door to new gestures which will be particularly helpful for faster web browsing. While the Magic Mouse is a typical wireless mouse consisting of batteries, laser tracker and a Bluetooth chip the secret sauce is the capacitive sensors surface capable of gestural input. Imagine the gestures you can use with an iPhone but now you can us them with your Magic Mouse.

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Sort of off topic - I seemed to have missed most of  it  but now I am sick and tired of it except at least this one doesn’t have that creepy bartender in it.

There has recently been a rash of articles and blog posts about the Rosie Coffee Table. I have been bewildered that a fairly basic touch screen personal computer has gained so much interest. Is it because it is in a coffee table? I think that it will be a while before touch screens stretch beyond basic kiosk uses due to a whole host of factors particularly the lack of applications and the glacial speed of user adoption of new user pointing and manipulation devices. As sad as it may seem, I think the speed of change in this area will not accelerate until my kids start hacking and it will be a truly transformative experience much like the iPhone is to your basic WAP experience and will be something more similar MIT’s high resolution multi touch system that Jeff Han demo’d at TED:

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