Multitouch Oy demos Cell multitouch display
By Nilay Patel 
posted Sep 1st 2008 10:19PM
posted Sep 1st 2008 10:19PM
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First time i blog something before engadget :D
wow - what a pointless technology - or at least the video -
my iphone does the same sh1t - JK - but yah!
No, it is pointless. For four years or so now we've seen this incredible technology doing exactly two things: rotating and zooming. Two things that you could do (on the rare occasions that you need to) with a mousewheel and finger in a three-inch-square space, much more efficiently than waving your arms around a giant vertical surface.
Multitouch is mostly a waste of time. The two things it would be good for, connecting two things or selecting a range, are never shown. Nor implemented: Witness the iPhone's year-long inability to select multiple E-mails for deletion, and even now they still don't use the vaunted multi-touch for this obvious application.
thats awesome
1st
2nd fail
That's certainly the smoothest and most lag-free multi-touch thing like that I have seen.
I didn't realize techno viking had such an interest in multitouch.
Oy vey
Oy-tacular.
Oy!
Osakeyhtiö.
Still, its much simpler to say "Oy, mate!" than "Osakeyhtiö, mate!".
OyPhone.
I gotta say, "Multitouch Oy" sounds more British or Australian to me than Finnish.
There's only so much photo resizing I need to do... when are these things going to do something cool ?
You could play pictionary. Pictionary is cool.
i wonder what is the hardware there using.
The problem with all these multi-touch demos is that all they can show is photo rotation. Yes, using your fingers is great for putting photos in a disorganised mess, we get it.
Now start being innovative with software, and show me some applications that are actually *better* thanks to a pair of multi-thousand dollar displays, and I might be excited.
exactly.. Microsoft surface is the very same!
You should check out some of Apple's multi-touch software patents. It appears they are working on an incredible fully-formed computer implementation to replace our current HCI paradigm. Apple is certainly the most established candidate company for creating a next-generation user interface. It will be interesting to see what they pull out this fall...
Tom Cruise needs help tracking down future crimes. That should be reason enough.
as always, nothing beats demonstrating a multitouch display than by using a big mess of photos to spin around and resize.
I'm very interested in knowing what effect windex would have on that screen?
I hate fingerprints!
I wonder how long will take for Apple to buy this company...waiting...
...imagine working with Motion with that. Oooh I'm drooling already...
apple already has engineers and technology, they dont need to buy another company to make something like this.
I don't think I'd want to buy from a company that has a logo that looks like it's giving me the finger!
YAWN!
From an audible perspective, I didn't understand hardly a single word these two guys said. But that aside, the display is very smooth.
What else can the technology do besides making it easier to swipe and resize things?