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With the Multitouch revolution already in full swing, a number of different companies have been coming out with multitouch devices that have made the people that purchase them very happy indeed. Microsoft has of course come out with the Surface and now they have come out with LucidTouch, something that addresses a very real logistical problem with a lot of handheld multitouch devices. While multitouch devices are great because of their high functionality, they all do have one inherent problem to them. If a person needs to very quickly interact with the touch screen, then a problem that arises in many multitouch products or demos is the person not being able to see the different areas of the touch sensitive screen to press. In other

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The Microsoft organization that is responsible for the implementation of new advertising technologies is the adCenter laboratory. This organization has been tasked by Microsoft with not only implementing new ideas for advertising technology, but also with developing those same ideas before they are implemented. AdCenter has been working with Multitouch technology for some time but it was only recently that the world found out just how much progress they had made. It was at the Fourth Annual Demo Fest event staged by Microsoft that the adCenter pulled off demonstrations of prototype technologies that utilized multitouch technology and turned quite a few heads in doing so. The principle flagship item of the demonstration was a prototype computer working on multitouch technology. This computer, while similar to

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