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[Taichi Inoue] is back again, this time with a multitouch system that uses water as the touch surface. The setup consists of a tank of water placed atop an LCD, a lamp, and a web cam. The web cam pics up the light that is reflected when something breaks the surface of the water. It is, as far as the computer is concerned, no different than the blob recognition we see with many of the home made multitouch systems. Mixed with his Yukikaze, this guy might end up with the most relaxing computer system in the world.[Taichi Inoue] is back again, this time with a multitouch system that uses water as... more
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Take everything you thought you knew about multitouch and throw it out. Okay, keep the Minority Report stuff, but throw everything else out. What we're looking at here is a 22 megapixel display, stitched together from the output of no less than 28 projectors (7,168 x 3,072 total resolution), which just happens to respond to touch-like input in a fashion even Tom Cruise would find fascinating. You don't have to actually touch the wall, floor-mounted cameras pick up your gestures in 2D space and a 30-node computer setup crunches all the computational and visual data to deliver some buttery smooth user interaction. For demo purposes, the makers of this system grabbed a 13.3 gigapixel image of Tromso and took it for a hand-controlled spin.Take everything you thought you knew about multitouch and throw it out. Okay, keep the... more
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It is a massive display wall consisting of 28 projectors and 30 computers. With a resolution of 7168×3072, viewing a 13.3 gigapixel image is a treat. That treat is made even stronger by the fact that navigating the image is done multitouch style with a touchless system built from web cams. We’ve seen lots of projects come out of the NUI group with similar interfaces, but none that used the webcams like this. Usually, the webcam is detecting some kind of interaction between the person and an infra red light source. Maybe that is happening here and we just don’t see it.It is a massive display wall consisting of 28 projectors and 30 computers. With a... more
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MSI on Wednesday announced it has begun shipping its new Wind Top AE2220 all-in-one desktop PC. The AE2220 takes its place as MSI’s flagship all-in-one and expands the company’s fast growing...MSI on Wednesday announced it has begun shipping its new Wind Top AE2220 all-in-one... more
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Ever wonder what the insides of a human being really look like but lacked the grit or credentials to watch an autopsy in the flesh? Well, whatever the reasons, we can all probably agree this is one of the best uses for a multitouch table surface ever. The Virtual Autopsy Table (developed by Norrköping Visualization Centre and the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization in Sweden) makes use of high resolution MRIs, rendered and processed into 3D images which are then accessible in the table itself.
The results are super impressive and educational -- not to mention the fact that there's no actual cutting involved! The autopsy table was obviously developed with educational purposes in mind, and we wouldn't be surprised to see these cropping up in museums all over the globe any day now.Ever wonder what the insides of a human being really look like but lacked the grit or... more
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Here's hoping every pico projector outfit on the planet is paying attention to what's going down at CEATEC, otherwise they can pretty much forget about competing with what Funai is boasting. Seen here in Japan, this prototype projector utilized a Nippon Signal MEMS scanner and a great deal of top-secret technology in order to actually add multitouch capabilities to whatever surface is lucky enough to receive the projected image. You read right -- if you use this PJ to beam up an image on your bathroom wall, school whiteboard or any other surface, you can count on that surface having multitouch capabilities while the image is live. Once projected, users simply twist and turn the image in order to have it modified in real-time, and while there are obviously far more enterprise-based uses for this than consumer-based uses, there's no denying the awesomeness. Have a peek of the beamer in action after the break, and expect it to go commercial sometime in 2010 (if we're lucky).Here's hoping every pico projector outfit on the planet is paying attention to... more
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Introducing 'Virtual Autopsy' - the world's first er, virtual autospy table/application. Well, at least I think it is!
Watch the video for to see an, ahem, *hands on* of this unique multitouch table for yourself.Introducing 'Virtual Autopsy' - the world's first er, virtual autospy... more
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The Lenovo ThinkPad T400s looks like your boring tray-table business notebook. But what the flight attendant doesn't know is that the Windows 7 14.1-inch capacitive touchscreen laptop is the first capable of four finger multitouch and it's fingertastic!The Lenovo ThinkPad T400s looks like your boring tray-table business notebook. But... more
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With the rise of the iPhone and the soon to be released Windows 7 it seems touchscreens are all the rage and everyone wants to get in on the act.
Step forward Mozilla Firefox, who have just shown off a multitouch (AKA iPhone) version of the best browser out there.
"Firefox can already be controlled with multi-touch gestures -- a three-finger sweep up or down for going to the top or bottom of a Web page, for example, or two-finger pinch gestures for zooming out. But Felipe Gomes, a Brazilian computer-science student who has just finished a stint as a Mozilla intern, has demonstrated how Web-based applications -- not just Firefox -- can use multi-touch.
His demonstration shows multi-touch controls for shrinking and enlarging icons, painting, selecting a region of a photo, and playing Pong."With the rise of the iPhone and the soon to be released Windows 7 it seems... more
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Microsoft is at least considering releasing a consumer-priced version of its Surface computer, if a marketing research survey is to believed. The survey is centered around a device called “Oahu,” which, from its description, sounds a lot like the table we've all come to know and love: a multitouch flat screen that sits like a table top and allows for multiple users to interact with it at once.
The survey asks what “forms” of Oahu the participant would like to see: if they would most likely use it as a homework helper, for content creation (for things like editing recipes), or as an information hub. It also asks how likely the participant would buy it if it cost $1,500. Um, how about "YES. VERY LIKELY. GIVE IT TO ME NOW?"
original article from http://gizmodo.com/5063541/microsoft-survey-hints-at-oahu-surface-multitouch-table-at-consumer-pricesMicrosoft is at least considering releasing a consumer-priced version of its Surface... more
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Via BBC: The way people interact with computers is going to dramatically change in the next five years, Microsoft chief Bill Gates has told BBC News.
He predicted that the keyboard and mouse would gradually give way to more intuitive and natural technologies.
In particular, he said, touch, vision and speech interfaces would become increasingly important. Via BBC: The way people interact with computers is going to dramatically change in... more
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A recent usability study found that average cell phone users are far more efficient using physical QWERTY keypads to type messages than they are when using the virtual keypad included with Apple Inc.'s new iPhone. (AppleInsider)A recent usability study found that average cell phone users are far more efficient... more
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watch until the end... things are not what they seem
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