New, much longer video of Jeff Han demonstrating his giant multitouch interface. I blogged about Han and multitouch back in February of last year. It's all very Minority Report-ish. Obviously, since the iPhone debut, this stuff seems much more mainstream. And it is really cool - but only for certain data sets. For instance, it's hard to see how this augments any text based work. But for manipulating photos it's incredible.
My guess is that Apple is taking this very seriously. Adding coverflow (stolen from iTunes) to the Finder in Leopard makes it hard to think that multitouch isn't coming to all Macs. I expect the next round of laptops to have some sort of multitouch track pad.
And, while not specifically multitouch related, this Apple patent application for keystroke tacility arrangement on a smooth touch surface might offer a glimpse at the solution for touch screen keyboards. I hadn't thought of that route. Could you really deform a screen into something like a keyboard? That would be incredible and would solve the biggest issue with the iPhone. Sounds a little too sci-fi for me to believe it's anywhere near production though.
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My guess is that Apple is taking this very seriously. Adding coverflow (stolen from iTunes) to the Finder in Leopard makes it hard to think that multitouch isn't coming to all Macs. I expect the next round of laptops to have some sort of multitouch track pad.
And, while not specifically multitouch related, this Apple patent application for keystroke tacility arrangement on a smooth touch surface might offer a glimpse at the solution for touch screen keyboards. I hadn't thought of that route. Could you really deform a screen into something like a keyboard? That would be incredible and would solve the biggest issue with the iPhone. Sounds a little too sci-fi for me to believe it's anywhere near production though.
- jim 10-25-2007 9:30 pm