Ask HN: What would you do with a touchscreen monitor?

Posted by mcav on Monday June 01, 2009 @05:38PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I recently bought a 12-inch touchscreen display off of eBay. I figured it would be cool to put some kind of status monitor, weather, etc. on it and mount it on the wall. A regular LCD would work to display that information too, though.

Any ideas on what would be interesting/useful/cool to display on there (particularly anything that would take advantage of its touch capability)?

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with a touchscreen monitor? by mcotton on Monday June 01, 2009 @06:51PM (#636969)

I'm in the home automation business and this is what I do all day. Complex tasks become very intuitive when you use pretty graphics and simple layouts.

If you need ideas for widgets, check out what the guys at http://www.chumby.com have done.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with a touchscreen monitor? by CyberED on Monday June 01, 2009 @08:20PM (#637093)

I'd use it full-screen with pyGame and experiment with implementing the view part of MVC and alternative user interface (that requires no keyboard nor mouse) think gestures, taps, etc. Direct manipulation has a huge promise when applied on a larger scale. Look at iPhone / iPod Touch and the various Surface systems for inspiration.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with a touchscreen monitor? by PieSquared on Monday June 01, 2009 @06:02PM (#636889)

I'd use it to write myself notes, or calendar, or to-do list. Basically, an electronic whiteboard.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with a touchscreen monitor? by TallGuyShort on Monday June 01, 2009 @05:57PM (#636881)

I would put my current hobby project on the back-burner, and I'd start playing with ways to interface with the computer using natural gestures. That's a topic that's always fascinated with me - and is becoming more and more relevant.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with a touchscreen monitor? by jcapote on Monday June 01, 2009 @05:53PM (#636875)

I'd try and run android with it.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with a touchscreen monitor? by bhousel on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @10:09AM (#637837)

probably clean it constantly :-/

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