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Windows 7 Multi Touch Demo
Here is a nice demonstration of the built-in multi touch capabilities we can expect in Windows 7. You’ll notice that much of it stems from the Microsoft Surface platform. The good part here is that it uses off-the-shelve hardware: a Dell Latitude XT, which comes with the N-Trig DuoSense overlay and a multi touch driver.
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Multi-touch, Rants, User Interfaces
Stantum update
I received an e-mail from Stantum. I won’t post it in its entirety but here’s an interesting part:
“We are now happy to offer you a possibility to purchase 1 unit of the SMK 15.4 for 2,900.00 Euros ! Even more aggressive pricing can be done for several units ordered. Just let us know how many [...] -
DIY, Multi-touch, Programming, Research, User Interfaces
Tomato Touch
This is sooo cool. Check it out here: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/151274.asp
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Multi-touch, Research, User Interfaces
Scalable Multi-touch
Having worked in Scandinavia occasionally, it makes sense to me why so much technological innovation arises from this area. Smart phones, GPS coordinated taxi’s, paying with a chipcard in public transport, 100 MBit broadband internet - they had it all like five years ago. The reason? My guess it’s because it gets dark so early. [...]
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Multi-touch, User Interfaces
CNN elects “Magic Wall”
I figure Jeff Han’s Perceptive Pixel is chalking up his client-list with a lot of big names nowadays. Their website however is suspiciously silent about their activities which include building a visualization tool for the US presidential elections for CNN.
It is not as smooth as we’re commonly used to when seeing Jeff Han material. This [...]
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Multi-touch, User Interfaces
Pocket Guitar
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 [...]
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Multi-touch, Research, User Interfaces
Stantum Rocks!
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 [...]
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Multi-touch, Research, User Interfaces
Philips 52″ Multi-touch Screen
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 [...] -
Multi-touch, Research, User Interfaces
The Why of Multitouch
If you are in doubt whether you should think of multitouch technology as Very Exciting, a Major User Interface improvement, or even a Much Faster Way To Operate Your Computer, read on.
I’ve had some interesting discussions with hard-core gamers about multitouch technology. I learned that they were indeed doubting most of the above. To a [...] -
DIY, Research, User Interfaces
Microsoft DIY hand-held optical device
Patrick Baudisch is a research engineer at Microsoft Research with a lot of cool stuff to his name. He and two of his colleagues wrote a paper about putting the electronics of an ordinary optical mouse inside a fluffy pouch and triggering the sensor by squeezing and pushing the optical electronics around as you would [...]
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