sábado, 6 de febrero de 2021

Newsvine - multi-touch

Source: Apple Insider

Apple Inc, which helped spawn the PDA market with its Newton MessagePad line in the early '90s, plans to give the concept another go with a modern day reincarnation of the old fan favorite based on the company's new mutli-touch technology, AppleInsider has learned.

Source: Ars Technica

Although the question of whether multi-touch technology is ready for the desktop is an important one, there's also the issue of what multi-touch will be used for in the future.

Source: techoped.com

I spent some hands-on time with the iPhone a couple days ago and came away with the same general impression that most have had up to this point, except for one thing: I don't want one.

Source: on10.net

I gotta hand it to Microsoft. This is a pretty sweet device they have here. Now hopefully the price can drop by, well, a few thousand dollars...

Source: Engadget

ver the years we've seen plenty of surface and gestural interface computing systems and prototypes, but nothing mass-market -- nothing consumable, if you will.

I was listening to a podcast today that referred to an e-mail from a listener who was curious about the recent Apple updates to iTunes (7.1.1). He wondered if the move to full screen Cover Flow was more than just eye candy.

Source: www.intomobile.com

Apple has always been an innovator. Now they are a revolutionary mobile device powerhouse that can command the respect of an industry that Apple has only just announced they will break into.

Source: etre.com

If the iPhone's multi-touch user interface raises interesting questions about the importance of tactile feedback, then Microsoft Research takes the discussion to a whole new level. What if you could interact without touching anything at all? Take a look at the video clip below.