January 2008

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• Multi-touch, User Interfaces

  Pocket Guitar

  01.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  MobileWhack reports a cool example of multi-touch for small-scale devices such as the iPod Touch: the Pocket Guitar by Shinya Kasatani. You can even play along with the music on your iPod. It is an initial release and future updates promise configurable “plucking” sensitivity so you can play a string by dragging your finger over [...]

• Multi-touch, Research, User Interfaces

  Stantum Rocks!

  01.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Stantum Technologies, original developer of the JazzMutant Lemur, will now offer their multi-touch technology on an OEM basis. Their technology is based on a capacitive overlay touch-sensor that has been thoroughly redesigned to detect multiple points of contact. Also, where IR-based systems perform detection using Computer Vision (CV) algorithms, all the processing is done here [...]

• Multi-touch, Research, User Interfaces

  Philips 52″ Multi-touch Screen

  01.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  52-inch Multi-touch Screen – World’s Largest Multi-touch Display
  “LG.Philips LCD’s 52-inch multi-touch panel for public and interactive displays is not only the world’s largest, it is also one of the most responsive, able to recognize input from either a touch of a finger or more precise writing instruments. It uses an infrared image sensor that gives [...]

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