Computer desktop for the wall

Posted by David Pescovitz, November 16, 2007 7:52 AM | permalink

Here's the future of mixed reality technology. A German designer created der Desktop für die Wand, a "desktop for the wall." Practical or not, it's a fun idea.
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#1 posted by The Lizardman

, November 16, 2007 9:40 AM

I'm not real good with German so I may have missed something but this isn't future anything - it is just old technology. File folders on walls is an old and in some cases still very practical way of doing things. The only novel element here are the computer icon mimicking labels and that is still questionable in terms of originality as labels were used in this fashion before such desktop icons existed.

One of the most common examples are folders for daysheets, setlists, etc on tours which are posted in this fashion in or near the production office. It was in the 90's that I first heard someone jokingly reference desktop icons in relation to such a display but the practice goes back to at least the 1980's in my personal experience (seen then in an institutional office context) and probably much before then.

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#2 posted by David Pescovitz , November 16, 2007 9:42 AM

@Lizardman (#1), I was joking.

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#3 posted by archdukechocula , November 16, 2007 9:50 AM

Its not all that creative. Ive seen it done many many many times on other websites, mostly by bored college students.

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#4 posted by EdT. , November 16, 2007 9:52 AM

I had one of these, but unfortunately it occasionally drops all the folders onto the ground leaving a blank blue screen. :-(

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#5 posted by simplehuman , November 16, 2007 10:37 AM

I think they need blue folders for the Mac version.