[Sigia-l] When will you buy one?

[Manu Sharma]

Ziya wrote:

> You think this is just an overpriced toy? Or a UI/interaction 
> paradigm breaker?

Not very different from Tog's Starfire project from early 90s. 
http://www.asktog.com/starfire/. Except that in this case the input 
and dispay are the same.

I actually think that there's a pretty realistic chance that we'll 
see multi-touch interface in regular laptops very soon. Apple has a 
patent from a few years ago in which the notebook cam interprets 
finger movements that can be used to manipulate objects on screen.

After the iPhone demo, a lot of blogs/ news sites / rumor mills have 
been speculating about multi-touch to be one of the unannounced 
features of their next OS (Leopard). None, however, as far as I 
know, have made the connection with this patent of Apple. 
http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/64/apples-wide-trackpad

Manu