Category Archives: Multi-Touch

ZeroTouch Multi-Touch, an Invisible Multi-Touch Interface!

Here’s an interesting multi-touch idea that might be very useful and implemented across all multi-touch devices in the near future.  The ZeroTouch as its name says, uses “zero” physical touch to the screen and can implement the same multi-touch gestures as on a regular multi-touch screens “invisibly”.

The frame is lined with 256 IR sensors, which are connected to a computer. When ZeroTouch is mounted over a traditional computer screen it turns the display into a multitouch surface. In a demonstration at CHI, Moeller played a computer game using

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DIY Gesture Controlled Devices!

Computer scientist Amit Pate demonstrates us the simplicity of using a camera, projector, and a cellphone to create a simple yet fully-functional DIY gesture-controlled device.  This could be applied to many areas where gesture control is concerned.

SixthSense Device is a wearable gesture. Its user friendly interface links the physical world around us with digital information and uses hand gestures to interact with them. All of us are aware of the five basic senses – seeing, feeling, smelling, tasting and hearing. But there is also another sense called the sixth sense. It

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Android Multi-Touch Tablet Prototype Hands-on Review! [Web 2.0 Expo]

Today, I was at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco as soon as it was open (as I blogged about it several hours before).  Upon walking around the exhibit floor, I quickly found Adobe.

Oddly, they were displaying all smartphones such as Google’s Android phone like Nexus One, Droid and the Palm Pre but nowhere was an iPhone nor iPad to be found.

(Sorry, Apple, no free lunch for you at Adobe’s booth this time!)

Upon closer look, I found Adobe had one of the Google Android Tablet prototype running Android OS 2.1 (I believe).

The Google Andr

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Multi-Touch Hack – DIY Puck Device Turns Any Surface into a Multi-Touch Surface!

The next step in multi-touch surfaces?  Have no surfaces at all to rely on but rather a device (in this case a puck) a person can hold and turn any surface into a multi-touch surface!  That’s exactly what this Puck device does.  It’s still rather crude to be called a full multi-touch device but still, it’s a good beginning and we think it might be the future of multi-touch devices where the surface no longer exists but you can carry a quarter-sized device to turn any surface into a multi

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Multi-Touch DIY – How to Make your Own Multi-Touch Table!

Here’s a rather cool DIY interactive Multi-touch display project that you can learn to make also.  I like this multi-touch project as the display is actually not LCD but a projected screen on a whiteboard.

This rules as I think projected LCDs are slightly more safer for child use, spills, and whatnot.

Also, don’t forget about

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Ideum’s 100-Inch Multi-Touch Table!

Thought Microsoft’s Multi-Touch table was cool?  Well think again, here’s Ideum’s 100-inch multi-table that also supports 50 simultaneous touch points, meaning 50 people can be doing things on it simultaneously.  Brilliant!

Video:

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMEqMyrivRk

The currently unnamed device–which is being called an “ultra-wide screen multitouch table exhibit exploring the electromagnetic spectrum”–is b

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DIY Multi-Touch Sphere Brings some Interesting Touch Interface to the World!

Check out this awesome multi-touch sphere that brings a new way of interacting with machines. Not only do you get a 360 degree view of what’s going on, the multi-touch interaction seems more ideal for situations like educational institutions and whatnot. Regardless how it works,

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iPhone Hack – How to Make a Cheap Stylus with Snap and Dental Floss!

Here’s a quick and dirty iPhone/iPod Touch hack for making your own iPhone/iPod Touch stylus using snap fasteners and dental floss as ingredients.

Most standard stylus pens won’t work with Apple’s capacitive screens, but this model seems to use the conductivity and flexibility of a snap fastener bound with dental floss to get the right feel and connection. Feel free to correct our thumbnail circuit punditry, but first check out the simple, cheap building of an iPhone stylus:

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Multi-Touch DIY – How to Build a Multi-Touch Surface Computer!

Microsoft Surface may be an easy option for businesses to get a multi-touch surface computer but they did not invent it nor is it the only viable option to having one yourself.

The guys over at MaximumPC has done a fantastic job of documenting how to build a multi-touch surface computer all from scratch using open-source multi-touch software Touchlib.  I find it facinating that the multi-touch is basically compose

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SurfaceDJ for Microsoft’s Surface Multi-Touch Computer at Web 2.0 Expo 2009!

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-0X0_ZvfHU

It’s been a long week as I was attending the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and had to update a site for a client but here’s the first of many videos I took from the show.

This is actually at Microsoft’s booth, they were featuring their new multi-touch computer, the Microsoft Surface.

I am not usually a fan of Microsoft’s mon

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