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Stomp meets email with Microsoft's StepUI
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Mar 1st 2006 at 2:50PM
It's only one of over a hundred new
technologies being displayed at the annual
TechFest, put on by Microsoft Research, but it's intriguing. Essentially it's a Dance Dance Revolution-style
interface for doing things on your computer. See some spam? Stomp on it! It uses currently-available dance pads to
issue commands to the computer, assigning buttons to do things like scroll, open, or flag an email. Best of all, to get
rid of an email, you hit both of your feet on the pad. Sounds like fun, and I agree with the MS folks who presume this
might get people a little more active while sitting on their duffs. More importantly, it brings multitasking to a new
level, as you'll be able to work with your hands and feet on the computer. Great, does this mean my boss will assume
I'll be more productive? I'll at least look cool, flailing about my cubicle.
[Via Microsoft Watch]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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