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Windows 7 to Include Multitouch Features
Multitouch as an overall technology has really taken the world by storm, although that really has a lot more to do with Apple than it does with Microsoft. When people consider the Apple accomplishments in the field of Multitouch, the immediate conclusion that is reached has to do with the idea of Multitouch technology on [...]
Operating System a Threat to Microsoft
The two biggest companies as far as Multitouch technology is concerned are Microsoft and Apple, both of which have products that are either already on the market or else are coming to the market that utilize Multitouch technology in order to create an overall electronic experience that is far beyond anything that the average user [...]
Microsoft’s New LucidTouch
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 [...]
Microsoft Multitouch Advertising Technology Leaps Forward
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 [...]
Microsoft, Multitouch and Advertising
While most people know about the Microsoft Surface computer by now, at the same time there are a number of other areas within the Microsoft company where Multitouch technology is being used. For example, Microsoft has been hard at work bringing Multitouch technology to bear in terms of interactive advertising and it is something that [...]
Human-Machine Interaction Research Notes from Shahram
Shahram is a researcher at Microsoft specializing in * Novel user interfaces and input * Interactive displays/surfaces * Tabletop computing systems * Tangible computing * Multi-display environments * hardware and recognition techniques for interactive systems * Technologies for domains outside the office e.g. the home or public spaces * Mobile User Interfaces and infrastructures About [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Satama’s Expertise at the Core of the Development of the Revolutionary Microsoft Surface
Satama Interactive Plc is a leading digital services company. Our aim is to combine talent and technology to make work and client dialogue simple, fun and profitable. Our services portfolio focuses into three core business areas: Marketing, Productivity and Mobility. There are 350 experts in the Satama Group. We are based in Finland in Helsinki, [...]
Microsoft R&D strikes with the LucidTouch
‘Lucidtouch’ technology (as they call) has been unveiled by MS in collaboration with Mitsubishi, this technology enables the user to input data into the device by touching either sides of the screen. The major difference between LucidTouch and MultiTouch technologies is that the user can manipulate the data on the screen by touching either sides [...]
