Bi-manual, multi-point, and multi-user interactions on a graphical interaction surface.
While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops.
salomon was talking about that; he send me a link. but I didn’t checked the importance of it. now i watched the video-clip and it’s amazing hot. pure sci-fi. I want one of those displays. now!
watch it here via YouTube:
go there to check it out where it comes from (and on the left side there is link to a — downloadable — mp4-clip (12MB)) .
Ladyada writes about her Pac-Man wheels – “The technology here is “persistence of vision”…when LEDs move fast enough they can “draw” an image when the wheel spins. That’s the basis behind both the MiniPOV and SpokePOV toys that I designed last year. I rode this design around last burningman, obviously ive adjusted the image so they’re “upside down” here for better photographing! If you’d like to build your own, check out the full instructions on Instructables
Finally a final on the horizon? K2 gets it own domain: getk2. Michael, Chris & Zeo working very hard to get K2 out of beta. And because so many people are interested and participating on the forum — which hopefully gets powered by a donation to use a license of vBulletin — an own domain was necessary.
Update no. 2: I was asked if it’s possible to do the «on-the-fly» editing of the page-source without Safari, eg. if you’re on a non Mac OS X system. Yes, it’s easy like with safariStand. You need 2 things: Firefox and the Web Developer Extension. With this setup you only have to choose “Edit HTML” from the “Miscellaneous” menu from the Web Dev Toolbar and edit what you want to change (temporarly).
Update: I made a little how-to-step-by-step. Click in the image on the left to view a (readable) bigger size — but only if your browsers window viewport is at least 660px in height, if not: save the image to disk or open it in a new window. Sorry for that.
You just have to temporarly change in the source-code:
"[…] param name="KIOSKMODE" VALUE="true" […]"
to
"[…] param name="KIOSKMODE" VALUE="false" […]"
AND
< embed name=" […] kioskmode="true" […]"
to
< embed name=" […] kioskmode="false" […]"
After you changed this and aplied it you will have the small triangle on the bottom right. Click there and choose "Save source" or "Save movie". That's it.
You can do this for example with Safari + SafariStand installed. Of course, you need QT Pro to save the clip to disk.
Regulary I read my news via NetNewsWire (RSS-Reader). Yesterday I stumbled about a short header at BinaryBonsai: «90 degrees». Not much more, just link to a QT clip. I followed the link, loaded the first few seconds and then decided to get the file loaded to my disk. This morning I watched the loaded clip and BOOM! Best animated short I ever watched. Pure drama, best supporting soundtrack. Just amazing. Maybe it’s time for you to check the clip. Around 70MB to load but worth every loaded byte. Go here to get loaded!
Bang! Next round Adobe vs. Apple. After the hype of Apples Aperture and the the not so good words about it after testing — Adobe returns to the arena with a competitor to Aperture. Today Adobe Labs announced the public beta of : Lightroom. May the best win!.
