Friday, August 29, 2008

Multi-touch Interface Design

With all the hype about iPhone 3G, many didn't realized that the multi-touch interface design is not a new thing that is invented by Apple. The technology has been long exist, but not yet developed or still in developing stage by the major player in software and hardware field. HP has already come out with a new desktop HP TouchSmart PC that utilized this technology.



Imagine in the future, your computer is just a piece of plastic and you can control it by using 2 or even 10 of your fingers at the same time doing all sorts of things without the old-style mouse clicking, just like what you saw in the movie Minority Report by Tom Cruise, I believe this is the future. Look at the following video and you will definitely say "wow" in not less than 5 times !


2 comments:

Revo.V said...

cheh, thats from microsoft surface ma, very lag one when i c they move the things. not impressive.
mmulti touch ? iphone awal awal got liao la.

Poh Hon said...

That video was recorded on year 2006, before iPhone exist, multitouch is not Apple's idea. That guy in the video mentioned in 80's there was already such technology. Comparing what that guy show to iPhone, the latter is nothing, LOL !