Financial Times article on gestures

Like other recent stories, it's a bit too quick to predict the death of the mouse IMHO, but still it has some good quotes from HCI gurus. Excerpt:

At almost 30 years old, is the computer mouse ready for retirement?
Certainly, a growing band of human-computer interaction (HCI)
specialists believe so. The crude language of "point and click", they
argue, seriously limits the "conversations" we have with our computers.

Among
them is Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini, a veteran HCI expert who joined Apple
in 1978 as its 66th employee and founded the company's Human Interface
Group during his 14 years there. These days, after spells at Sun
Microsystems and online healthcare company WebMD, Mr Tognazzini is a
respected consultant, author and speaker with usability company, the
Nielsen Norman Group.

"In many ways, our continued reliance on
the computer mouse reduces us to little more than cavemen, running
around pointing at symbols and 'grunting' with each click," he says. "A
revolution is long overdue, because we need more sophisticated tools
that will allow us to increase our vocabulary way beyond that caveman
grunt." Plus, the link between the computer mouse and cases of
repetitive strain injury (RSI) are hardly an argument in its favour, he
adds.

Luckily, he says, those "more sophisticated" tools are
right in front of our faces and we already know how to use them. They
are, in fact, our fingers.

"Look at the facts: we've typically
got 10 of these 'tools'; they move in a multitude of different ways;
and gestural language, which came long before verbal language, is an
established and intuitive form of self-expression. Even primates can be
trained to express needs and intentions using their fingers," he points
out.

Link: Gestures will force the mouse into retirement,
via Usability News.