Microsoft’s high-tech Surface table has a nifty feature that lets it communicate with electronic devices wirelessly and exchange data with them. For example, if you place a digital camera on top of the Microsoft Surface, the surface can automagically suck out all of the photos in the digital camera and display them on the table for you (and anyone else nearby) to see. It’s pretty rad. Sony is trying to put this great feature to good use for its wide range of digital cameras by building a smaller version of the Surface in the form of a touchscreen equipped inkjet printer. Sony’s illustration is above. Source…
The following clip is of a newscaster using a multi-touch transparent screen. The display is from U-Touch Ltd. a partner of NextWindow. It’s obvious that the whole presentation is staged and follows through a linear pre-animated sequence of “slides”. Here in Brazil the Globo TV started off with a true multi-touch screen in a live news show but had to back off to similar click-through presentations, due to the well known glitches and instability in performance. It seems like Minority Report is yet to become a common scenario.
Not sure where all this is going to. It’s still debatable if this is a real “progress” from our glitch-free old mouse. It’ almost funny seeing Microsoft introducing years old technology now and making news of it.
Here is an HP TouchSmart PC, running a Touch Map application on Windows 7.
After two decades when touch- and pen-based computing never broke through into mainstream use, the Apple iPhone has given PC makers another chance. HP’s new TouchSmart tx2z is the latest attempt, using features already built into Windows Vista …read more
Now, this is really something. A truly modular concept, that uses LCD display as opposed to most commonly used projector-based systems. That alone is a considerable boost in image contrast, resolution and colour quality. And said to run at 60 frames per second and in any light condition, it must be the Maserati of multitouch (I’m guessing prices are equivalent). Sounds pretty good to me
Sandbox is a brazilian company who develops software solutions for internet, desktop and multitouch tables with focus on aesthetics, interaction and usability, using technologies such as Flash, Flex, AIR and Java.
