The P5 Glove isn't vaporware!!! Its fantastic manufacturer, Essential Reality, has committed to a generous donation for use in our project! Check these puppies out: http://www.essentialreality.com SIGCHI will be applying the capabilities of USB glove input to window management, browsing, and general data management.
     In other news, your chair was rather enticed by Microsoft's nifty Tablet PC architecture. Highlighting and making ones own comments on top of a professor's PDFs would be highly desirable to students...but alas, we have ourselves another nifty project. If anyone is interested in advancing/developing Tablet PC applications, contact me and we will get some Tablet hardware to work with. E-mail me. Now.
     Lastly, I encourage all those to come and sit in on some really interesting HCI presentations (various topics). For the times and topic schedule, see <http://www-faculty.cs.uiuc.edu/~bpbailey/cs491-hci>

     SIGUnix is beginning to lay plans for the QuuxBox, a small, quiet, and highly portable console box running Linux.  The idea is to put together a computer that you can put in the living room without looking like you have a computer in the living room. Based off the tiny Mini-ITX EPIA family of motherboards for VIA, and fitting into a small black box, the QuuxBox will slide easily into your entertainment center.  Furthermore, although it will be running Linux (since Linux makes a great embedded operating system), you'll be hard pressed to figure that out.  The QuuxBox will come fully pre-installed with a Linux distro that replaces the command line with a menu system easily browse-able using a gamepad or remote.  So sit back, relax, plug in your usb gamepad, and watch DVDs, play mp3s, hark back to the good 'ol days with zsnes or watch divx movies.  If you think this project is cool and want to help out, please come to our Monday meetings, and yes, at some point we will need beta testers.