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• Patents: Apple's Gesture Dictionary, a Fingering Chart for Multi-Touch

  Published: August 2, 2007, 8:47 am

  Tags: Apple, Gesture Dictionary, Iphone, Multi Touch, Multi Touch Gesture Dictionary, Patents

  locking down this idea: a Multi-Touch Gesture Dictionary that identifies all kinds of finger play you can do on upcoming multi-touch interfaces. It started out with just the expand and contract motions on the iPhone, along with the ability to swipe your finger to get from one picture or graphic to the next. This takes those few gestures into

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• Apple patent attack: the multi-touch gesture dictionary

  Published: August 2, 2007, 2:24 pm

  Tags: Apple, Dictionary, Gesture, Multi Touch, Patent, Patent Application, Patentapplication

  for a patent on a new multi-touch "dictionary" which would establish gestures, or "chords" in multi-touch systems. The dictionary would not only provide a guide and somewhat-programmable system of movements, but would also function as an application which runs either on its own or in the background during other applications, allowing

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• Le futur de l'iPhone : un pilotage au doigt bas sur un dictionnaire de mouvements ?

  Published: August 8, 2007, 4:19 pm

  Tags: Actualit Et Avis Iphone, Apple Iphone, Brevet Apple, Brevet Iphone, Iphone, Multi Touch, Mutlitouch

  favori. Nomm "MULTI-TOUCH GESTURE DICTIONARY ' Il s'agit en effet d'un brevet relatif la constitution et l'utilisation d'un dictionnaire de mouvements des doigts utilisant un cran sensitif multi touch (tel celui trouv sur l'iPhone), permettant d'associer des actions au niveau de l'interface, un ou des mouvements des

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• iPhone 101: Zooming in and out of maps

  Published: August 9, 2007, 4:00 am

  Tags: Google Maps, Googlemaps, Multi Touch, Tap, Zoom

  far easier way. Use a single multi-touch tap instead. That is, tap with two finger at once. Separate your fingers so it's clear that you're making two contact points and...tap. Google Maps obediently zooms back out, one zoom stage for each multi-touch tap. Give it a try. It's a great tool to bring into your Google Maps vocabulary.Permalink

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• Revenge of Apple patent attack: giant laptop touchpad

  Published: August 9, 2007, 6:42 pm

  Tags: Apple, Macbook, Multi Touch, Multi Touch, Multitouch, Patent, Patent Application, Patentapplication, Touchpad, Trackpad

  delivered a doozy: a wide touchpad for a portable computer. Okay, honestly, it does seem to be just a very large trackpad with some "multi-touch" capabilities. The pad would take up some of the space where you typically rest your hands when typing, though according to the patent documents, the system would be smart enough to distinguish

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• The 2008 iPhone display? Sharp's next gen multi-touch LCD revealed

  Published: August 31, 2007, 6:45 am

  Tags: Iphone, Lcd, Multi Touch, Sharp

  glass behind the iPhone's multi-touch panel? Well this ain't it, it's better. Sharp -- one of Apple's iPhone panel providers -- just unveiled their newest 3.5-inch, 320 x 480 pixel resolution multi-touch panel which does what its predecessor did in just half the thickness. The new 1-mm depth was achieved by integrating the photodetector into

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• "Slim" MacBook rumors resurface

  Published: September 21, 2007, 11:52 am

  Tags: Apple, Macbook, Macbook Pro, Macbookpro, Multi Touch, Multitouch, Rumor, Slim, Speculation, Touchpad

  "something strange about the touchpad," which could mean we'll be seeing some sort of multi-touch functionality, or it could mean nothing at all. We'll keep you posted on what the mill has to say. Read Permalink Email this CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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• Apple Newton to reappear soon with multi-touch AppleInsider technology

  Published: September 27, 2007, 7:16 am

  Tags: Technology News, Iphone, Gadgets, General, Mobile News, Images, Daily Update, Apple, Iphone, Multi Touch, Newton

  Once again, Apple has shown some enthusiastic signs to reinforce Newton PDA concept, which marks an unsuccessful attempt to develop a line of personal digital assistants from 1993 to 1998, with modern multi-touch, AppleInsider, technology. (more…) Apple, Gadgets, General, Images, iPhone, Mobile News, Multi touch, Newton, Technology News

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• Hitachi announces StarBoard FX 77 Duo multi-touch whiteboard

  Published: October 2, 2007, 1:51 pm

  Tags: Hitachi, Multi Touch, Starboard, Strboard Fx 77 Duo, Strboardfx77duo, Whiteboard

  let you get a taste of that multi-touch business everyone is so big on these days. Otherwise, the board looks to be a fairly standard affair, with 24 customizable buttons included to keep your presentations running smoothly, and software provided to remotely link up to 50 of the whiteboards together. While there's no official word on a price

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• Sharp shows off multi-touch optical scanning portable LCD

  Published: October 2, 2007, 11:48 am

  Tags: Lcd, Multi Touch, Sharp

  used to enabled more robust multi-touch interfaces; instead of a touch-sensitive film (like most touchscreen phones) or a capacitive display (like on the iPhone), these future Sharp displays literally constantly scan for finger touches, enabling multi-touch input with all five fingers simultaneously.Gallery: Sharp shows off multi-touch optical

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• Nieman Marcus to sell Perceptive Pixel's Interactive Media Wall: yours for $100k

  Published: October 7, 2007, 11:03 pm

  Tags: Interactive Media Wall, Interactivemediawall, Jeff Han, Jeffhan, Multi Touch, Perceptive Pixel, Perceptivepixel

  Interactive Media Wall / Multi-touch Collaboration Wall (or whatever they're calling it these days -- if not, peep it here), but the missing link to this stuff is taking it home. Well, the wait is apparently over, and for once it's Nieman Marcus we've got to thank. While you're shopping for the latest must-have fall fashions, be sure to stop

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• Transparent Touchscreen: "Transparent" Touchscreen: LCD the Front, Fingers in the Back

  Published: October 11, 2007, 10:00 pm

  Tags: Iphone, Lcd, Lucidtouch, Merl, Microsoft, Multi Touch, Transparent Touchscreen, Video

  The iPhone touch interface is innovative, there is no doubt about that--but it does have some drawbacks. For example, multi-touch is ill suited to fat fingers and the process of navigating obstructs the screen. Wigdor at MERL, and Patrick Baudisch at Microsoft Research are hoping to change all that with a new touch sensitive gadget called

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• LucidTouch - multi-touch taken to the next level

  Published: October 12, 2007, 4:34 pm

  Tags: Video, Technologies, Concept, Lucidtouch, Multi, Touch, Touchscreen

  fingers as well as thumbs. Multi-touch improved on previous touchscreen applications by bringing another input dimension into the picture (hence the name, multi-touch). But, multi-touch (as it applies to the mobile space) still has its limitations - the user must change posture in order to effectively interact with the UI. LucidTouch improves

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• Nokia: Nokia Introducing Touch UI to Open Source S60 OS

  Published: October 16, 2007, 9:35 am

  Tags: Apple, Iphone, Multi Touch, Nokia, Open Source, S60, Symbian, Touch

  announced the addition of a touchscreen interface to their S60 OS. Comparisons to Apple's multi-touch input system are inevitable, but Nokia is holding its own with a few promised extras. These include silencing the phone by flipping it on its face when an incoming call is received, support for stylus-based input and a tactile feedback response.

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• Fentix Cube: If Rubik was smarter, had multi-touch

  Published: October 19, 2007, 6:24 am

  Tags: Andrew Fentem, Andrewfentem, Fentix Cube, Fentixcube, Game, Multi Touch, Rubik Cube, Rubikcube

  a cube of (patent pending) multi-touch touchscreens allowing for a myriad of multi-dimensional games, puzzles, and whatnots manipulated by the swipe of your greasy fingers. Best of all, it'll be on sale in limited quantities from London's (now infamous) Kinetica Museum. See it in action just beyond the break.Update: We just heard from Andrew,

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