Multi-Touch Tech
Meet the New Interactive Surface - Hitachi StarBoard
Touch technology seems to be the new flavor of the season. The introduction of Multitouch has really revolutionized the way technology interacts with a user. We have come across several Multitouch applications being introduced in quite a short span of time, since it started off initially with touch screens in money vending machines of [...]
Wiimote Hack Converts TV into Touchless Microsoft Surface
It has not been long enough when the whole world went gaga over Microsoft’s latest technological innovation Microsoft Surface. It has almost taken the world by storm with its announcement of inventing a touch surface which can merge imagination with reality.
The basics about the Microsoft Surface application is that you can usher the [...]
Multitouch – The Technology of 2008
When was the last time you were amazed by a touch screen or touchpad that recognizes multiple simultaneous touch points. Its no magic, but the attributes of Multitouch which uses a software to interpret simultaneous touches. Elaborately speaking, Multi-touch is a human-computer interaction technique, which is implemented by the hardware devices which can frequently include [...]
Experience Innovation with Microsoft Surface
Those who have been fortunate to see and experience it have quoted as a technology miracle and one of Microsoft’s most user friendly innovations.
Microsoft Surface is said to be quite similar to Windows Media Center. It runs basically on standard Windows Vista, which after all runs on an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB RAM, [...]
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 His Current and Past Projects….
ThinSight: this project navigates a [...]
Dual-Resolution Touch Screen TableTop System Unveiled
Researchers from the National Taiwan University have unveiled the i-m-Top a rear-projection, interactive, dual-resolution tabletop system, which can turn the top of an ordinary desk into a 120×80cm touchscreen display.
According to the researchers at the university’s Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia, the system makes use of infrared sensors to detect the motions [...]
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 [...]
