Multi-Touch technology demo

By Kevin C. Tofel | Thursday, October 5, 2006 | 12:55 PM CT | 3 comments | Tweet This

We’ve seen multi-touch ideas in Apple patents, but this video is one of the first demos I’ve seen of Multi-Touch technology. Some of the video is just cool eye-candy, but around one minute in, you can start to see some practical uses for multiple windows. Later on, there’s a great demo of map usage: zooming in is quickly done by placing a finger from each hand on the screen and moving your hands apart! You can see where I’m going….er…actually you can’t…until you watch the video!

(via Geek 24)

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Comments (3)

Imagine if we can get that kind of interaction on a UMPC. I think that would pretty much crush any concept of complaints about a keyboard and mouse. What a fantastic video.
Thanks for that one.
-Bobby

Bobby Chapman — 7:43 AM on October 5, 2006 Reply
It almost looks like in the movie “Minority Report”.

Richard L — 4:36 PM on October 5, 2006 Reply
The creators of the movie Minority Report consulted a technology adviser on possible future inputs and things of that nature. The weapon designs and such were all concepts. The input however may have been based on technology that was being developed at the time.
-Bobby

Bobby Chapman — 3:47 AM on October 6, 2006 Reply