Jeff Han’s “hands free” computer

Rocco loves the scene in one of the Star Trek movies where Scottie picks up a mouse — and tries to use it as a microphone to speak to the computer.

In what year will you give up your mouse? 2010?

Jeff Han is a research scientist at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and is inventor of an “interface-free” touch-driven computer screen. This is the future.

Click PLAY on the video below or watch the clip on YouTube.

(Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 09:32)

Han was speaking at the TED (Technology, Education, Design) conference. This must be one of the most exclusive in the world — it costs $4,400 to attend and is invitation-only.

TED.com has one of the coolest home pages I’ve ever seen.

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