A multi touch interface for an iMac would be superb. but instead of touching the screen with you fingers you slide them on a multi-touch touch pad on a table. After all who would want to stand up sliding their fingers all across a gigantic 30 inch cinema display?
Having to touch a touchpad (rather than the screen) flies in the face of the technology, the whole point is to be able to interact with things on screen as if they are actual objects.
I totally disagree, a multi-touch tablet surface that is not a touchscreen, is a GREAT first start. I would love it if my wacom could use my fingers and if I could use my whole hand and use the same finger motions I get on my iphone. Also it would be nice in a photo situation to have what apple DIDN'T get, a rotate motion, as is presented in Jeff Han's TED presentation.
In fact, look up the Jeff Han video, his angled screen is great, but imagine two options, touching the screen itself, as in that video, or rotating the screen from 45 degrees to 90 degrees (flush with the wall) where you would then back away from the screen, and use a remote touching surface to control the screen. (I'd sit on the couch with a tablet on my lap squishing away with my fingers)
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A multi touch interface for an iMac would be superb. but instead of touching the screen with you fingers you slide them on a multi-touch touch pad on a table. After all who would want to stand up sliding their fingers all across a gigantic 30 inch cinema display?
Having to touch a touchpad (rather than the screen) flies in the face of the technology, the whole point is to be able to interact with things on screen as if they are actual objects.
I totally disagree, a multi-touch tablet surface that is not a touchscreen, is a GREAT first start. I would love it if my wacom could use my fingers and if I could use my whole hand and use the same finger motions I get on my iphone. Also it would be nice in a photo situation to have what apple DIDN'T get, a rotate motion, as is presented in Jeff Han's TED presentation.
In fact, look up the Jeff Han video, his angled screen is great, but imagine two options, touching the screen itself, as in that video, or rotating the screen from 45 degrees to 90 degrees (flush with the wall) where you would then back away from the screen, and use a remote touching surface to control the screen. (I'd sit on the couch with a tablet on my lap squishing away with my fingers)
Although, I kind of do that sometimes now...