Archive for October, 2007
Touch-screen that feels your hand
Scientists at Microsoft Corporation’s lab in the UK have developed a prototype interactive touch-screen that can see and recognize one’s hand movements and anything near its surface.
The screen acts as a two-handed touch interface and a crude infrared camera. Users can operate the display with both hands, in a similar manner to the display in [...]
V2R releases Active UI MultiTouch for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs
V2R today released its new Active UI MultiTouch plug-in which allows you to control all the latest V2R Active plug-ins with your finger – something which becomes even handier now, with HTC’s new biotouch display technology which is used for the HTC Touch and HTC Touch Dual.
Active UI MultiTouch adds a small and multi functional [...]
T3 Plays with the Surface
T3 has recently got a chance to play with the Microsoft Surface, and they have posted a nice video in which you can see them having fun with it.
From T3:
T3 was treated to a visit by the much anticipated Surface computer this week. Shipped all the way from the States, it’s the first taste of [...]
Popular Mechanics Announces 2007 Breakthrough Awards
Popular Mechanics has announced its 2007 tech Breakthrough Awards crediting the Top Innovators, Inventors, Products, Tech Gadgets that are set to change one’s view point of technology.
These Include..
Jefferson Y. Han: The Hands-on Computer:If a screen is large enough, four or five people can work at it together, rearranging blueprints, say, or editing photos—but not with [...]
Apple Patent Application for Tactile Touchscreen Published
Apple patent application outlines method of providing tactile feedback with a touchscreen
With the release of the iPhone, Apple brought multi-touch technology to the forefront. In March of 2006 Apple filed a patent application for a “Force Imaging Input Device and System” that appears to be meant to give tactile feel to touchscreen.
The patent application was [...]
Perceptive Pixel’s Interactive Media Wall Up for Sale!
Via:engadget
You may know Jeff Han, you’ve probably seen his company Perceptive Pixel’s Interactive Media Wall / Multi-touch Collaboration Wall (or whatever they’re calling it these days — if not, peep it here), but the missing link to this stuff is taking it home. Well, the wait is apparently over, and for once it’s Nieman [...]
Microsoft Surface Revisited…
Earlier this year, Microsoft unveiled its Surface tabletop PC, and now Redmond is taking the technology demonstration on the road. Recently, it stopped off in London, where News.com sister site Silicon.com had a chance to take a closer look.
The Surface system, also known by the Milan code name, uses a 30-inch screen, several cameras, a [...]
