Why you should embrace Hands-Free Computing in the age of COVID-19

James Woodall
7 min readAug 4, 2020

Before the age of the mouse, computers were operated solely through the keyboard. Even though the concepts for a mouse-type input device had been around since the 60s they didn’t really become popular until the early 1980s.

The idea that you could “touch” your interface (albeit through a corded extension on your desk) made computers far more accessible and visual than they ever were before.

But, you still had to touch them.

The Lay of the Land

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James Woodall

James has been working in software development for several years and loves programming for web and wearable devices.