93: Optimal Interface

With a growing number of device categories and devices within them, it can be hard to pick what devices from what category will meet your needs. Jason Snell joins John to try to determine what the optimal interface is for what use case you might need and where technology is heading.
With Jason Snell and John Chidgey.

Related Article Links:

• Optimal Interface: Part 1 Input
• Optimal Interface: Part 2 Output
• Optimal Interface: Part 3 Devices

Referred During Show:

• The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang
• Robot or Not

Miscellaneous Links:

• Speech recognition
• Siri
• Amazon Alexa
• Google Assistant
• Cortana
• What is the Average Speaking Rate?
• Brain Computer Interface
• A Beginner’s Guide to Brain-Computer Interface and Convolutional Neural Networks
• Speed of Speech vs Speed of Thought
• About Braingate
• Computer mouse
• Pointing Stick aka Accupoint
• Computer Keyboard
• Trackball
• Touchpad
• Kinect
• Light Pen
• Touchscreen
• Resistive Touchscreen
• Capacitive Sensing
• Average Typing Speed
• Toshiba Satellite
• Eye
• Resolving the iPhone Resolution: Bad Astronomy
• Pixel Density
• Display Size, Resolution, and Ideal Viewing Distance
• Refreshable Braille Display
• Digital Scent Technology
• Virtual Reality
• VR Sickness Should Be Mostly Solved In 5 Years
• Virtual Reality: Motion Sickness May Be Avoided With New Innovation | Fortune
• Virtual Reality Sickness
• Google Glass

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Episode Silver Producers: Carsten Hansen, John Whitlow and Joseph Antonio.