‘Natural’ gestures, ThinkPads, and (perhaps) bodily fluids

One of my big concerns around all of this ‘natural interface’ crap is that there’s a huge fragmentation going on in gesture recognition. Just among the Apple fold, there’s a set for the iPhone, a superset of that for the iPad, some slightly different ones for the MacBooks, and yet another group for the Magic Mouse or whatever the hell it’s called.

But I digress.  The real point is that this gesture just scares the crap out of me. I’m getting carpal tunnel just looking at it. The only ‘natural’ analog to this one is choking the living daylights out of a small rodent that has run across your keyboard, is currently standing on the space bar, and is in the process of doing it’s own ‘natural’ gestures on your touchpad - quite possibly one that involves bodily fluids.