Harry Potter's Daily Prophet: the future of news?
Usability guru Jakob Nielsen says many of the magical devices in the Harry Potter books hint at things we'll soon be able to do in the real world. "Much of the Harry Potter books' charm comes from the quirky magic objects that surround Harry and his friends," he says. "Rather than being solid and static, these objects embody initiative and activity. This is precisely the shift we'll experience as computational power moves beyond the desktop into everyday objects."Among the examples he cites: "The Daily Prophet newspaper has photos that come alive when the wizards look at them. Tablet PC version 3.0 should allow us to read multimedia news at the breakfast table. Combined with eyetracking (which is still a few releases away), we'll rid ourselves of those annoying, constantly moving video clips. Instead, videos will appear as still images that play only when you indicate interest by looking at them for half a second or more."
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