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Unleashing The Full Power of Multi-Touch Interfaces
posted by Editor on Monday February 12, @06:08PM
Gesture Interfaces Armin Sander pointed out this MIT Technology Review article about multi-touch sensing interfaces, which allow users to interact with a system using more than one finger at a time. The concept may become popularized in the Apple iPhone, but its real power surfaces when it becomes fully integrated into an interface on on larger displays. The MIT article focuses on the work of Jeff Han, a leading researcher of multi-touch interfaces who has developed an inexpensive and scalable implementation (Nooface featured his project last year). To get an idea of how multi-touch applications work on a large-scale display, see this YouTube video of Jeff demonstrating his interface at the prestigious TED Conference in 2006, where the audience was clearly blown away.

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    Unleashing The Full Power of Multi-Touch Interfaces | Login/Create an Account | Top | 2 comments | Search Discussion
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    besides the focus (Score:1)
    by d on Tuesday February 13, @11:58AM (#48)
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    Just a note for completeness: Multitouch gadgets have been around for quite some time now. The JazzMutant Lemur has been available (buyable) one year before Jeffs presentation at TED. IIRC the first version was announced in fall 04.

    www.jazzmutant.com/lemur_overview.php [jazzmutant.com] Does anyone know of other multitouch devices that were on the market before?

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    one more vid (Score:1)
    by d on Friday March 23, @07:05AM (#49)
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    just for completeness: here's another video from January http://youtube.com/watch?v=ysEVYwa-vHM [youtube.com] I'm especially happy to see, that he uses magic lenses for his demo.

    And for your watchlist: Perceptive Pixel [perceptivepixel.com] is the NYU spinoff founded by Han around his multitouch research.

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