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- sdether, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Watch the video that's attached to the article. Amazing. Even more impressive than the YouTube video of Jeff Han at TED. Makes you wish everything supported multitouch already.
- GoDisplay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow!!! You're right. The "Desktop On Steroids" is NOTHING compared the the entire COMPUTER ON STERIODS!!! For those who haven't seen it, the whole video is here:
http://fastcompany.com/video/general/perceptivepixel.html
Thanks for sharing. - Argle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2so does this mean that Apple stole their iPhone multi-touch from this guy?
- EdgeOfEpsilon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That second link should be: http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ (obviously).
From one of his pages, this sentence intrigued me: "It relies on frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR), a technique familiar to the biometrics community where it is used for fingerprint image acquisition."
Does this mean we can use a high-resolution camera to authenticate biometrically using this same technology? You wouldn't even need to cover the whole screen, just have a specific high-res area (or an aimable high-resolution camera that tracks to wherever the software needs it). That would be schnexy. - quetivity, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1this is really cool, i would like to know the specs of the machinery behind all this
http://www.netfreez.com/lubix - EdgeOfEpsilon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Except minority report made you wear gloves. *sighs*
Actually, gloves for some tactile feedback might not be a bad idea… imagine a virtual keyboard with ultra-light keys attached to your fingers, that change texture like Logitech and Immersion's iFeel to let you 'feel' the boundary between keys. Of course, you could also 'feel' everything else on the screen too, rather than just touching a flat pane of glass. I would think that might also such the oils out of your hand, which could lead to dry fingertips (ugh!). It would also make it easier to implement 'gestures in the air', like in MR.
Nevermind, I'll take the gloves! (optional, of course ;) ) - EdgeOfEpsilon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Apple's hardware uses a different sensing technique. I don't know what it is, but there's simply not enough room in there for a FTIR system like Han's. Yes, they did patent some of those gestures (like the pinch) after this video came out, and I thought the same thing. However, they also came up with some unique gestures (like using a virtual on-screen scrollwheel) that I was surprised weren't in the iPhone.
For more, see:
Han's FTIR page: http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/ (with the famous video)
His homepage (some of his other stuff is really cool too, like using a simple grid of LEDs as a display and multi-touch sensor! also has a visual of how FTIR sensing works): http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/
Han at TED, demoing this for the first time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcKqyn-gUbY - Kendalf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Simply amazing.
- quoquo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1makes you look like a virtuoso
- davecor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I just shot over 200 photos that I need to sort through quickly. Something like this would be handy if I could see thumbnails of each image and toss them into groups.
This might also make more sense to my grandma who would be lost in a file tree or nested folders. - Skurt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And thus begins Minority Report Computing...
- Moremoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I saw this awhile ago, it's gotten much better. I love the wide screen display. I hope it's reasonably priced.
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