“Pretty much all the devices that are available to consumers such as tablet PC’s, or businesses such as the smart boards and kiosk PC’s are single touch only. The devices just emulate normal mouse interaction with a single cursor. The touchtable, surface pc and perseptive pixels devices all allow you to interact with multiple touches at the same time, either both hands or several people at once. This bit is the most challenging, both from a hardware sensing, and a software processing perspective. I’m not too sure how the touchtable and perseptive pixels stuff works, but the Surface PC works using IR sensing, as decribed here.” http://geometrybag.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/build-your-own-touchtable/ “Anyway, after a bit of searching I found this site dedicated to building your own touch table using
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The below information was sourced from an unreliable source. It’s accuracy has now been discredited. It appears it was not a Surface computer that was used during the production of “The Island”, and in fact most of the credit should go to Mark Coleran and others. An update is provided here. “While working for Microsoft I’m getting used to the fact that there will alwasy be a good deal of negative comments on everything we do – it’s just how it is. When we postpone our OS it’s a scandal, when the competition does it’s a smart move. When we announce something innovative, someone else has done it before because copying is what we do apparently.After the announcement of Surface, the same happened. Although there