?Well, have you've seen those all in one PCs? They have a monitor, the tower (where all the processors and components are located) and imput devices all in one convenient case. And they use touch screens! The iPad, iPhone, iPod touch are great. I use one myself. But following microsoft track record, we can expect a big headeak when it decides to copy apple when it comes to touch screens... wait, they already had! S***!!!! (lololol) Frankly, give me a nice keyboard and jaws any time if I am working with windows. If not, give me an iPad. They work without a screen reader because they have one installed. And it doesn't stink just like narrator! From: Cy Selfridge Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 1:39 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Nice story. I have no idea what would replace the mouse. I can not see a touch screen replacing the mouse on a computer, that would be a real nightmare particularly with screens getting larger and larger on desktops. (LOLLOL) Since I can not use a mouse I really do not care either. (ROFL) Cy, The Anasazi From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Farfar Carlson Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 10:34 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Nice story. Cy, What do you think will replace the mouse, then? Completely back to the old Hewlett-Packard Touchscreen? Or perhaps an IPad device connected to, or built into the computer keyboard? Dave Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in and around my Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California ----- Original Message ----- From: Cy Selfridge To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 09:27 Subject: RE: Nice story. Yadiel, If the mouse truly goes away there will be mass culture shock and millions of people will be dumb struck. (LOLLOLLOL) Cy, The anasazi From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yadiel Sotomayor Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 10:01 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Nice story. Yes, the mouse will go extinct in a couple of years. But is going to be replaced by those dammed touch screens. I really hope that microsoft will keep the keyboards and learn from apple on what to do with a touch screen (who am I kidding, microsoft won't do anything like the sort when it comes to touch screens, I mean narrator is as old as the sun and it still stinks). From: Judy Jones Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 10:01 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Nice story. I had a MicroSoft tech tell me that the mouse will be phased out in a few years. Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Dicey To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 9:26 AM Subject: Nice story. Hello Friends, This is very interesting. I have no such sighted friends, they all think it is a bit "Weird" that I listen instead of using my eyes, but now remember Science Fiction is the window to the future and with that in mind Star Trek: Captain Kirk: "Computer" "Computer Working" "How long till we reach Vulcan" "We shal reach Vulcan in 23 hours 12 minutes and 14 seconds"!" LOL! Yep, just around the cornner I am sure and keyboards will be a thing of the past. With Best Regards, Alan Miami, Florida Alan Dicey, President United States Braille Chess Association - USBCA "Yes, Blind and Visually Impaired People, Can, and Do, Play Chess!" United States Braille Chess Association Home Page: http://AmericanBlindChess.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Yadiel Sotomayor To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 10:54 AM Subject: Nice story. Hello list: This just happened recently. I have a friend that used to taunt me because since I have jaws on my computer I could just sit back and relax while jaws spoke everything on the screen and he needed to read everything instead. Well, that changed a couple of weeks ago. I told him about the demo of jaws and guess what. He is sighted and yet he is using jaws everyday now on his computer. He says, it is faster and cooler than just reading on his computer. Also, he says that is is easier on his eyes. Also, he uses eloquence. That is wierder still because 99.9999999% of all my sighted collegues hate eloquence and prefer the real speak voices. Now he is almost as fluent with jaws as I. He also has eloquence at a rate faster than mine. I am telling you this because, when sighted peaple see how useful is jaws, they want to try it out and when they do, they don't think that it is weird at all. Finally, don't get me started on what he thinks about the virtual ribbons. He says (and again, remember that he is sighted) that that feature is a messege from God itself. Yadiel