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• Something we won't see tomorrow: iMac Multitouch

  Published: August 6, 2007, 4:13 pm

  Tags: Addemo, August7, Demo, Dvdgraphic, Imac, Interace, Jazzy, Multitouch, Rumors

  have said before that a multitouch computer like this wouldn't work-- to find out why, touch your screen for five minutes and notice how tired your arm feels. However, an interface like this is too good not to use somewhere. Sure, we may not see an iMac with a big touchable screen like this, but "...a guy can dream, can't he?"Thanks,

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• Apple calls multitouch Mac a "research project"

  Published: August 7, 2007, 3:43 pm

  Tags: Apple, Imac, Mac, Multitouch

  DisplaysSo we didn't get the multitouch iMac today that some might have been hoping for, but Steve Jobs did drop one tasty hint about the oft-rumored technology. During the Q&A portion of today's keynote, somebody referred the iPhone's multitouch sensing and asked, "what about for the Mac?" Steve, surprisingly, replied. "Makes sense for the

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• Patents: Apple Applies for Patent on MultiTouch Interface for Laptops, Too

  Published: August 9, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Apple, Macbook, Multitouch, Patents

  a further tinkering with its MultiTouch interface, now showing how it might be implemented on a Macbook Pro in a patent application that extends the idea from an earlier filing in 2004. No, you won't be smudging up that gleaming screen with your pasty paws—the touchscreen on this Macbook is not actually a touchscreen at all, but a seriously

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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

  Filed under: Laptops Apple is up to its old tricks again: filing crazy patent requests for wild devices like the process is going out of style. This time, the boys and girls in Cupertino have really 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"

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• Jazzmutant's multitouch tablet works with a stylus as well

  Published: August 17, 2007, 2:11 pm

  Tags: Dexter, Jazzmutant, Lemur, Multitouch, Tablet Pc, Tabletpc

  folks have been doing multitouch since way before it was in vogue, with patents reaching back to 2004 and some nifty tech to back it up. They spend most of their time on the Lemur and Dexter media control surfaces, but they've been playing around with Tablet PCs, and their first prototype is a beauty. The main advantage of the tech is that

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• Found Footage: $2 multitouch screen, made with iSight

  Published: August 28, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Bag, Camera, Coding, Dye, Interface, Isight, Multitouch, Twobucks, Waxy

  Odds and ends, Found FootageMultitouch is all the rage lately, but one of the drawbacks is that it's still pretty expensive. Enter this ingenious device-- it's a bag with dye colored water in it. That bag is then laid flat on a glass table, an iSight camera is placed underneath, the computer is coded (it appears, anyway) to look for fingertips

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• Sharp's Multitouch New LCD Panel Can Go Up to 12 Inches (I Smell an Apple Multitouch Tablet)

  Published: August 31, 2007, 3:43 pm

  Tags: Screens, Hardware, Lcd, Multitouch, Sharp, Touchscreens

  Those manufacturers of multitouch devices of the high visual quality and resilience of the iPhone's might have another option from Sharp. According to Impress, the LCD veterans have made a 3.5 inch, 480 x 320 screen, capable of multitouch. These can be made up to 12 inches in diagonal size. Perfect for a portable.

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• Jazzmutant Lemur multi-touch control surface for media applications

  Published: September 13, 2007, 7:02 am

  Tags: Multitouch Sensor Technology, Graphic Interface Concept, Jazzmutant Lemur

  concept and exclusive multitouch sensor technology. The Lemur s revolutionary concept is based on JazzMutant s unique patented multitouch technology. Lemur s multi-touch capacity allows the users to use all the ten fingertips to control multiple user-interface objects at once. It also offers a modular interface editor, for MacOSX or

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• Nextfest07: Jeff Han Talks Multitouch, iPhones, and Lame Minority Report Jokes

  Published: September 14, 2007, 3:51 pm

  Tags: Clips, Feature, Jeff Han, Multitouch, Nextfest07, Pcs, Perceptive Pixel, Top

  would call the father of multitouch interfaces, was a highlight of my Nextfest fly through. He was showing off Perceptive Pixel's 16 foot long multitouch system and I got a chance to ask him about the UI, what he thinks of and the iPhone and other systems, and how much he must hate Minority Report jokes. (Including the one I happened to

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• Jeff Han Talks Multitouch, iPhones, and Lame Minority Report Jokes

  Published: September 14, 2007, 3:51 pm

  Tags: Computers, Clips, Events, Jeff Han, Multitouch, Nextfest

  would call the father of multitouch interfaces (or at least someone highly obsessed with them), was a highlight of my Nextfest fly through. He was showing off Perceptive Pixel's 16 foot long multitouch system and I got a chance to ask him about the UI, what he thinks of and the iPhone and other systems, and how much he must hate Minority

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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

  Filed under: Laptops Sure, you've had the space of a few minutes without Apple rumors, but be honest with us: it felt lonely, didn't it? Well don't worry, because the rumors are back... with a vengeance. According to 9to5mac (who recently nailed news on the iPod nano), Apple is readying a new line of black and sliver aluminum laptops, which might

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• Multitouch: Jeff Han's Media Wall Available Now

  Published: October 7, 2007, 11:14 pm

  Tags: Jeff Han, Media Wall, Multitouch, Perceptive Pixel Multitouch System

  Perceptive Pixel multitouch system. That very device, renamed the Media Wall, is now available for purchase. Sure, we are a little disappointed the $100,000 starting price point is not lacking a few zeros, but we are still excited by the roll out. We cannot wait for our test unit to arrive... WTH? We're not getting one? Jeff—we

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• Jeff Han's Media Wall Available Now

  Published: October 7, 2007, 11:14 pm

  Tags: Screens, Giant, Jeff Han, Multitouch, Screens, Touchscreens

  Perceptive Pixel multitouch system. That very device, renamed the Media Wall, is now available for purchase. Sure, we are a little disappointed the $100,000 starting price point is not lacking a few zeros, but we are still excited by the roll out. We cannot wait for our test unit to arrive... WTH? We're not getting one? Jeff—we

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• Surface: Video of New Microsoft Surface Table Apps

  Published: October 15, 2007, 4:45 pm

  Tags: Gadgets, Microsoft, Multitouch, Surface, Surface Table

  ripples on touch, and the multitouch paint app that can read all 10 fingers at once. Too bad these things are so expensive and for commercial use only. But this video? It's free and worth watching. Plus, the techno makes it all exciting and futurish. [Youtube]

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• AU Optronics unveils 0.69mm ultra-thin mobile ...

  Published: October 18, 2007, 1:20 pm

  Tags: Hardware, Portable, Screens, Au Optronics, Hardware, Multitouch, Screens, Touchscreen

  AU Optronics unveils 0.69mm ultra-thin mobile device panel and multi-touch coolness [AU Optronics]

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