[Sigia-l] The next frontier
Listera
listera at rcn.com
Fri Feb 10 03:44:38 EST 2006
You may have been reading about Apple's recent patents on
multi-point/multi-touch finger based input devices, which in the abstract
lead to a lot of confusion, anticipation and wild product speculation:
<http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/apple_patents_display_leap_fr
og_concepts_for_touch_sensitive_displays1/>
A great video piece from NYU demonstrates some of the concepts:
<http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/>
Imagine the possibilities for navigation, info viz, data manipulation,
interactive teaching...
Ziya
Nullius in Verba
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