After i posted about Rosie Multitouch Coffee Table, i then learnt about an other similar technology which is called as Tangent – A MultiTouch Surface, which was being developed since several years Tangent is built on the multi-touch research platform and used as a digital medium for research,testing and developing innovative and new multitouch interaction techniques. Tangent offers a direct interface to manipulate virtual objects by making it possible to touch and interact with these objects. Tangent asks for fundamentally different interaction principles than the ones known from traditional interfaces, similar to microsoft surface. In the project phase Tangent was developed and built and a range (set) of interaction principles were designed and implemented. Hardware: It uses a tabletop multi-touch surface consisting of a rear
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Gizmodo.com has post there hands on experience with the new Rosie Multi-Touch CoffeTable, below it goes ……………most of my short demo was buggy, even for a beta. The machines, powered by various Apple PCs (Macbook Pros, etc.) were housed in wooden cases that looked like lower-end furniture. Probably fiberboard stuff, on par with Ikea, by my initial judgment. The UI itself is based around floating or aligned icons, with no text labels, for control of many things by RS-232 or IR, like many home theater gear and home automation equipment. You drag icons to the enter button, or click the enter button and click enter, to open em. I saw demos of a touchscreen satellite TV controller, with a favorites mode that showed off TV