A "cool" tablet NFC idea

[3_bit]

Wouldn't it be cool if placing your smartphone on a tab let's screen made there be a UI around the device? So pretty much you would have a futuristic UI that conforms to the shape of the peripheral/NFC flash drive/smartphone/etc that allowed you to access files, send files, sync files, and all the other cool futuristic-ness. Ideas about this idea?

 

[Binky]

I don't get it: can you give a more detailed description?

 

[elwing]

you mean this?

=> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692087%28v=surface.10%29.aspx

 

[2bit]

I think they're saying some sort of near field communication device right ? ...

 

[Binky]

you mean this?


=> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692087(v=surface.10).aspx

I wish microsoft would go back towards the computer = advanced programmable graphical calculator approach to design


The same goes for apple. A UI should make sense in terms of keyboard (remember those? They have buttons!), mouse, display; not in terms of cinematic sci-fi nonsense. 


/me disapproves of learning curves defined by y=0

 

[3_bit]

you mean this?

=> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692087%28v=surface.10%29.aspx

Precisely, but cooler and with icons with actions surrounding the device.

 

[elwing]

you mean this?

=> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692087%28v=surface.10%29.aspx

Precisely, but cooler and with icons with actions surrounding the device.

guess that was cool enough 4years ago when it was published... as much as one can despise microsoft no one can deny they do some cool research sometimes...

 

[dreamer]

you mean this?

=> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692087%28v=surface.10%29.aspx

Precisely, but cooler and with icons with actions surrounding the device.

And how do you supposed the tablet knows the size and orientation of the phone? NFC is not going to give you this.

 

[3_bit]

I know, but the idea is cool though, isn't it? The way displays are going, we could have cameras BEHIND displays that see through them by 2020, making this kind of thing work.

 

[dreamer]

Ok then, come back in 7 years and then bug us about this