Friday, February 10, 2006

Haptics

YouTube - Crazy Multi-Input Touch Screen

Just a little pointer to a lovely bit of video showing a haptic interface, with multi-point touch screen manipulation of images. Check out the multiple spinning records...

My favourite thing about 'The Island' was the desktop that functioned as screen and input device, controlled by touch and an executive toy. Vannevar Bush must have been thinking along those lines with his desktop memex...

1 comment:

Matt said...

Go watch the Firefly episode "The Train Job"...