Controlling Your Computer Through Touch
There is a new video that’s been posted at YouTube (among other places) that is a demonstration of a “multi-touch” screen interface. This is a huge leap from the kind of touch screen we’ve all used at ATMs or with Tablet PCs. Not only can the screen recognize and respond to up to ten different touch-points at one time, it also recognizes getures. The first minute or two of the video looks at messing around with cool, colorful graphics, but the real interesting stuff is further in. The section on labeling, rearranging and resizing a collection of images really shows what an interface like this could do for computing.
Yes, it’s just one more thing to break. However, it looks like a much more natural interface than anything I’ve ever seen before. I hope it makes it out of the lab sometime soon!