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CHAOS · 06-01-2007, 03:46 PM

this is effing cool. now if only he and steve jobs would join forces again... can you say microapple cars?

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/sticker-s...?autoplay=true

another link

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

grimm · 06-01-2007, 03:49 PM

it's actually pretty old technology. (not saying it's not cool) but it's nothing new...

Scapegoat · 06-01-2007, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by grimm

it's actually pretty old technology. (not saying it's not cool) but it's nothing new...

from what I hear its ability to recognize more than one touch point at a time has never been done before

xEJ20x · 06-01-2007, 03:51 PM

Still pretty slick.

goodfella732 · 06-01-2007, 03:57 PM

thats amazing, Id love to put my camera down and have all my pictures out like that and be able to grab and stretch them. To bad it will be years before we see those

grimm · 06-01-2007, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Scapegoat

from what I hear its ability to recognize more than one touch point at a time has never been done before

I may be wrong but I don't think thats new...
Below is the one that i know about, the one in the video isn't exactly the same as the gates one, but it's basically the same technology.
touchtable
TouchTable.mpg

Still it's pretty fricking awesome!!!

240sxDann · 06-01-2007, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by goodfella732

thats amazing, Id love to put my camera down and have all my pictures out like that and be able to grab and stretch them. To bad it will be years before we see those

you can buy it for 10k

lagos · 06-01-2007, 04:06 PM

that is pretty bad ass. however they need to scale something like that down into a product for home use.

speaking of bill gates and steve jobbs... i was just watching this interview with both of them today. you can tell they really hate each other. .lol

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/when-two-...eos-264788.php

tjf · 06-01-2007, 04:30 PM

i saw this the other day, i hope it sinks up with the 360, or knowing microsoft you'll need a 360 elite and a $1400 wireless adapter cause they know how to hit you with them add-ons

james_ls · 06-01-2007, 07:32 PM

Lemme pick up my jaw from the floor.

This **** never ceases to amaze me.

Supraholic · 06-01-2007, 08:03 PM

Very nice...how much? *BORAT Accent*

den9 · 06-02-2007, 12:13 AM

i wonder if i can set my drink on that and some virtual coasters will keep it from effin up the screen

Raven18940 · 06-02-2007, 12:43 AM

Amazing technology, maybe they just came out with it, maybe not, but they're definitely the first to apply it. I can't wait til they actually have a real OS and applications running on it. This could revolutionize the way we use computers.

**Ender81** · 06-02-2007, 01:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Scapegoat

from what I hear its ability to recognize more than one touch point at a time has never been done before

Not quite, one of the iphone's claims to fame is that it has the multi touch. The rumor is that Apple is thinking of putting the same thing into a tablet pc.

MPowerKai · 06-02-2007, 01:11 AM

doesn't impress me that much. I've been corrupted by the sci fi channel

cburwell · 06-02-2007, 10:50 AM

There was a video floating around a while ago with someone using a multi-touch screen to transform patterns on the screen. This was well over a year ago, so multi-touch has been around for a little while.

Regardless the screens ability to interface with other objects is pretty cool!

**TROLL** · 06-02-2007, 10:55 AM

yeah there was a thread on tst with a link to a video of an asian guy (sorry thats the best description i can give) doing a demonstration for a group of people at a technology conference using one. he was arranging and sizing photos, doing a lava lamp program that heated up the lava where you touched it, and other things.
this vid seems to be a transformation of the same technology, applying it a bit more to every day use, and is very cool. i think we will see it everywhere in time. the next 20 years holds a lot more technological advances than i think any of us can imagine.

MPowerKai · 06-02-2007, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by TROLL

yeah there was a thread on tst with a link to a video of an asian guy (sorry thats the best description i can give) doing a demonstration for a group of people at a technology conference using one. he was arranging and sizing photos, doing a lava lamp program that heated up the lava where you touched it, and other things.
this vid seems to be a transformation of the same technology, applying it a bit more to every day use, and is very cool. i think we will see it everywhere in time. the next 20 years holds a lot more technological advances than i think any of us can imagine.

We should be building warp capable starships by now

mr_eh · 06-02-2007, 11:15 AM

great, now i can smash my monitor when i lose at internet chess/checkers

james_ls · 06-02-2007, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by mr_eh

great, now i can smash my monitor when i lose at internet chess/checkers

Yeah but now wouldn't you just be flipping your table??

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