{"id":10956,"date":"2005-09-26T12:24:31","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T12:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2005\/09\/two-in-the-hand.html"},"modified":"2005-09-26T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2005-09-26T12:24:31","slug":"two_in_the_hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/26\/two_in_the_hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Two in the hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8211;now <i>this<\/i> you don&#8217;t see every day.  A small company called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tactiva.com\/\" \/>Tactiva<\/a> has unveiled a rather <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tactiva.com\/demo.html\">eye-popping demo<\/a> of a device that lets you use both hands while working in design software.<br \/>\nThe appeal of using two hands at once (instead of essentially pointing with a stick and grunting, as is done with a mouse) isn&#8217;t new; the latest Wacom tablets feature touch strips for non-dominant hand work, and Logitech and others sell a variety of pucks and other devices for the same purpose.  But the Tactiva device takes things to a new level by displaying a ghosted image of your actual hands overlaid on the UI, as well as providing force feedback when you interact with on-screen objects.<br \/>\nThe device faces plenty of obstacles to adoption (no manufacturers yet, potential $1000 price point, need for support in applications that assume a single input control).  Yet I keep thinking about it.<br \/>\nWhat do you think?  Just a neat parlor trick, or the future of computing, or something in between?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8211;now this you don&#8217;t see every day. A small company called Tactiva has unveiled a rather eye-popping demo of a device that lets you use both hands while working in design software. The appeal of using two hands at once (instead of essentially pointing with a stick and grunting, as is done with a mouse) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}