Tag: MULTITOUCH

We have seen the future of DJ equipment, and it comes from Chile. According to Engadget, a guy named Rodrigo posted a video demonstration of this Token multitouch surface setup for DJs. A rear-mounted projector beams video from a computer onto the giant sheet of glass, which lets users touch and swipe across the surface of the digital control board to create different beats, sounds, effects and ...

Touch displays are awesome and all, but it sure takes a lot of effort to put your finger to the screen. Couldn't we just do it with our feet? Well, Professor Patrick Baudisch and his research team at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany have developed a multi-touch floor display called Multitoe, utilizing the concept of frustrated total internal reflection (we had to Wikipedia that ...

Students at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany are helping to redefine virtual poker with 'Poker Surface,' a system that gives card sharks a way to play -- without the cards, the chips, or the table (or, unfortunately, those Aces up your sleeve). 'Poker Surface' uses a multi-touch screen as well as a player's mobile phone to simulate the game. Using the intuitive system, bettors can ...

Google just issued the first update for the Nexus One and we're all a bit stunned, and extremely confused. See, until now getting multi-touch on Android meant either hacking your phone or living overseas. In fact, Google's Andy Rubin was pretty dismissive of the multi-touch usage model when confronted by our friends at Engadget. So, with Google adding "Pinch-to-zoom functionality" in the Nexus ...

Acer has always played second fiddle to the bigger boys here in the U.S. like Dell, Apple, and HP. It's not that Acer doesn't make quality PCs, it's just that it lacks the visibility and marketing muscle of its larger competitors. That said, Acer has seen increasing success thanks to its Aspire One netbook, which, along with the Eee, helped kick off the craze for tiny, low-power laptops. Hoping ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Elan_sues_Apple_for_multitouch_patent_infringement'; Remember all the fun everyone had watching Palm and Apple's legal wordplay regarding multitouch patents? If you missed it, Apple delivered a very thinly veiled threat to Palm, flouting how it had touch-sensitive intellectual rights up the wazoo to protect itself from the competition. Apple, though, may be ...

With VIZIO and Pioneer jumping out of the plasma game, we can totally foresee sales of Panasonic's 103-inch PDP skyrocketing. All kidding aside, a startup arcade would be ludicrous to not shove one of these into the center of the action. What you're looking at above is a mutltitouch air hockey table, made possible by Panny's ginormous plasma and a U-Touch overlay from uicentric. The table was on ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/The_Minority_Report_computers_become_reality'; If you've been waiting for that 'Minority Report'-style interface to really come to fruition, you can finally exhale. One of the science advisors from the Steven Spielberg film -- along with a team of other zany visionaries -- has created an honest-to-goodness, real-world implementation of the computer systems ...

Determined to make us jealous that our kids' childhood experiences are more marvelous than ours, SMART Technologies will tomorrow unveil the SMART Table, a primary education "interactive learning center" (we'd rather call it Surface Jr.). It'll be available Spring of next year, and will work out of the box with learning applications that can be operated by any number of kids and all their ...

Saturday Night Live's Fred Armisen takes CNN's "Magic Map" to its logical -- and hilarious -- conclusion. What would happen if New Hampshire got moved down to Mexico? Two more pics after the break, and the video after the break. ...

Panasonic is looking to reinvent the remote control with its EZ Touch Remote prototype that it is showing off here at CEATEC. Rather than rely on a touch-screen interface that forces one to look down at a remote (and away from the object of one's entertainment), the concept puts the visual feedback where it belongs: on the screen. The remote can sense left- or right-handed users and adjust the ...

Trying to divine what Apple's up to from patent applications is never easy, but every now and again the diagrams actually make it obvious -- and it looks like Steve and his elves are hard at work on large-format touch interfaces, possibly for a tablet Mac of some kind. The latest touch-related filing is some 52 pages long and details everything from working with multiple finger inputs to ...

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/microsoft/VIDEO_Microsoft_s_Multi_Touch_Sphere_surfaces_in_Redmond'; There it is, right on cue Microsoft's Surface has gone spherical over at Microsoft Research. Rumored since March, the prototype relies upon an infrared system to detect hands, fingers, and objects as well as an internal (not external like Surface) projection system developed by Global ...

Riddle us this: what's better than a laptop with one screen? A laptop with two screens! eDetail was at CES this week showing off its award-winning dual screened computer tablet. The unique dual multi-touch screened monster is primarily targeted at professionals and commercial applications, but the company is producing a 14-inch model aimed more at consumers. Professionals can use the laptop to ...

Some of us have been hoping for or expecting it since the announcement of the iPhone, while some of the rest of you, like Farhad Manjoo of Machinist, are just realizing the possibilities. A touch-screen Mac, or the more traditional rumor route, a Mac Tablet. It's not as crazy as it seems, the iPhone is built on OS X, it shares the same core operating system with your desktop and notebook Macs. ...