More on Moore’s Law

Last week I got an iPhone, this week I got a Wii. Both devices feature major improvements in User Interface.

While the devices are very different, they both feature a web browser that has to face small resolutions (a television’s resolution sucks). On the Wii you use your Wiimote (remote), on the iPhone your fingers. I won’t go through the details as they have been amply explored on the internet; I will however note the differences and similarities.

The keyboard: the buttons change in size on hover above on both devices, providing visual feedback. The Wii provides a short vibration, providing tactile feedback.

[Never got around to finish this review, but I'd be interested on hearing anyone's take on the future of User Interface]

People who know me know that I am a proponent of the paperless office, and even the diskless office (aka. the cloud office, which involves using a combination of software as a service and cloud software for everything). I use a variety of tools to achieve this, Google supplying a large amount of these, and Mozilla a key one with Weave.

However, in writing my thesis, I had to switch to paper for the mathematics / game theory model. It was just that much quicker to write new equations and solve them. While limited, paper for math certainly is more agile.