Anything that forces me to get up and physically move to use my console/computer is an instant no-no for me :heh:
I consider it a step back, with regards to input interfaces, personally.
Agreed. I like having a 5000+ dpi mouse, so I can have three monitors and move my fingers barely more than than an inch to cover my whole desktop. (Or use a trackpoint, for just a millimeter or so!) And touch typing doesn't take that much movement either.
OK, so I like reverse pinching for zooming and pinching for zooming out. But that's on my 3-inch iPhone, or on a touchpad. Right now I'm using a laptop without a Trackpoint so I'm running Scroll++ to let me scroll with the touchpad. It's better than using the side of the touchpad, but it's still annoying.
If you thought RSI with a keyboard and mouse was bad, just wait until the Kinect-type interfaces.
WhiteRice, I almost posted that video the other day. The step-zoom gesture (0:24), I could get into. The jog-wheel (2:44) was also a nice touch.
They got zooming backward (0:07, 1:04). Reverse-pinch will probably last longer than the double-click.
I don't like pinky-to-select (0:39). I've lost the use of each of my pinky fingers for a few weeks (at different times) to injury...