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Oliver
26th February 2007, 07:07 PM
For those digital maniacs like me out there. This may be the
future of interacting with your computer - Multi-Touchscreens:

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http://multi-touchscreen.com/
kevin
26th February 2007, 07:34 PM
that is freaking cool. as a cadd person, i want one today!

i disagree that they think it's intuitive, but it's still freaking sweet.
TobiasTheViking
26th February 2007, 07:43 PM
hm, they don't work for me. But from what little did work(start frame) i can see what it is. Very cool, a bit dated, but very cool.

If you want to see it in production, watch the keynote about the iphone, the iphone implement it. Not as much, but the picture resize etc is there.
kevin
26th February 2007, 07:59 PM
hm, they don't work for me. But from what little did work(start frame) i can see what it is. Very cool, a bit dated, but very cool.

If you want to see it in production, watch the keynote about the iphone, the iphone implement it. Not as much, but the picture resize etc is there.

The last one worked for me, i didn't try the others.

I don't think the iphone has multiple-simultaneous touch points. the iphone is a very primitive version of what is shown in the last video.
kevin
26th February 2007, 08:05 PM
whoops, i see the iphone is multi-touch. oh well the video is from august 26, 2006 so it predates the iphone intro anyway.

I still want one at 26x34. That is what i've always wanted instead of my old drafting table (although I didn't envision the multi-touch thing).
TobiasTheViking
26th February 2007, 08:12 PM
ah yes, now they work, i tried finding the problem, nothing from youtube would play, videos google worked, now youtube works again. Also tried another browser.

Queer.

Yes this is prior to the iphone. But imo there is a big difference between a tech demo, and in production. :D
kevin
26th February 2007, 08:19 PM
true, but i'd still rather have a 36" computer display desk with multi-touch than an iphone (and ipod with the iphone interface I'd love to have, i don't want the phone.)
Zep
26th February 2007, 08:37 PM
You need a 36in iPhone??? :eek:
webfusion
27th February 2007, 10:20 AM
Mouse $7.99

M-T Screen $7999.


Anyway, thanks for the first look, Oliver.
alfaniner
27th February 2007, 04:52 PM
If you could see how gross some of my cow-orkers' screens are now, you'd think twice about getting one of these for yourself.

For now I'll stick with Dasher.

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/TryJavaDasherNow.html
richardm
28th February 2007, 03:51 AM
Mouse $7.99

M-T Screen $7999.


That's not really fair, it's a new technology... the earliest mice cost $400 (possibly (http://www.oldmouse.com/articles/xerox/Alto.shtml)), and even today you could, if you wanted to, spend $145 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Order=PRICED&Page=1&Category=29&N=2000290065&Submit=ENE&Nty=1&SubCategory=65) on one, so we can hope that the M-T screen will become less relatively expensive.

Additionally, it depends on what you want to use it for. Some commercial users already use very expensive bits of dedicated hardware and very expensive screens, and might not think that $8k for an excellent screen with integrated control hardware is that out-of-the-way.
Bradk3
1st March 2007, 08:47 PM
If you could see how gross some of my cow-orkers' screens are now, you'd think twice about getting one of these for yourself.

For now I'll stick with Dasher.

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/TryJavaDasherNow.html

Okay, I'm steering a bit off-topic here, but thanks for that link. I've been playing with Dasher on my Dell Axim and I think it's just about the coolest thing I've seen in quite a while!