HP is pushing a mouse-less TouchSmart PC. Microsoft has invested millions of dollars in a coffee table-shaped “Surface” computer that responds to natural hand gestures, touch and physical objects.
Splendid, a digital innovations agency in London, is one of the first companies to adopt Surface. Paul Bishop, its managing director, said: “It’s much more collaborative and natural and people find it very intuitive.”
Steve Prentice, an analyst at Gartner Research, also predicted the mouse’s demise.
“I very much doubt that we’ll be using the mouse in 40 years’ time,” he said. “They will be still be around in four or five years, but will they be the standard we see today? We’re starting to see more complex and intuitive controls develop and the mouse will be left behind.”
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