TechCrunch is working on this beautiful ‘CrunchPad‘ Web Tablet and just received their first prototype! A Beauty, they are trying to finish it with a $200 retail price Only!! (probably will be around the $300 at the end) but the screen is now flush with the case and they decreased the overall thickness to about 18 mm. The case will be aluminum, which is more expensive than plastic but is sturdier and lets them shave a little more off the overall thickness of the device. Their partner Fusion Garage continues to drive the software forward and they are in deep discussions with key partners to bring the device to market. If you’d like to see the previous CrunchPad in action watch the Video on the source – More info on TechCrunch.com
It´s almost unbelievable, but we had a major problem with our blog hosting (Nerdhosting) and we have lost (ugh!) some of our previous posts. We will try to get them back, but we decided not to wait, since we wanted to keep posting stuff about multitouch. So, we apologize for that…and of course for not choosing a better hosting solution ! .
…Interestingly enough she went directly for the stretch gesture with two fingers. (<- Makes daddy proud!). Everything looks to be hooked up and running correctly as the gesture was mapped to what I’m assuming is a “Zoom” key/command which in BabySmash! world means “random shape”. Letters and Numbers come up correctly with all other keys doing “random shape”. Read more…
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
Simtouch, built in AIR, is a very useful tool for testing your multitouch application since not everyone has a multitouch table. But even when you do, it´s faster to test it with you mouse then actually booting up the table everytime Simtouch is cool because it´s actually a transparent screen so you can click right on your Flash/Flex/AIR mtouch application.
There is also another tool, built in Java, called “Tuio Simulator”, you can grab it here, it works pretty well too.
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.
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