On 28 Jul 2007, at 01:58, Joachim Thiemann wrote:
On 27/07/07, Jason T <silent700 at gmail.com>
wrote:
If you look at the creator's page, these things are more design
studies/art:
(The typewriter is under "22 POP")
http://www.interaction-ivrea.it/theses/2003-04/
householdobjectsintheact/thesis_1_intro.html
As such this is a clever hack, and seemingly well thought out!
Yes, but I'm not convinced it's the best way to solve the problem.
The author / designer states the project is "inspired by [his]
mother's frustration with e-mail and using a computer. She simply
cannot relate to scroll bars, the mouse, control keys and so on". I
can't help feel that she would cope a lot better with a simple dumb
terminal and pine or mutt or whatever.
Stroller.