The Minority Report Interface is on the way (X windows style)

MPX already supported multiple input devices. Which blows pretty much all assumptions in user interfaces (input) out of the water. (with video)

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Microsoft Surface: Hands-on First Look

"Behind the scenes with the coffee table that will change the world."

Obscura HP Multi-Touch Video Wall WSJ D5 HP conference

BREAKING ANNOUNCEMENT: The new Microsoft Surface

The launch of Microsoft Surface marks the beginning of a new technology category and a user-interface revolution. Surface, Microsoft’s first surface computer, provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural hand gestures, touch and physical objects. Surface computing breaks down traditional barriers between people and technolog



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Sony's flexible, full-color OLED - YouTube

Sony unveiled what is billed as the world's first flexible, full-color OLED display built on organic thin-film transistor (TFT) technology. The 2.5-inch prototype display supports 16.8 million colors at a 120 x 160 pixel resolution, is 0.3 mm thick and weighs 1.5 grams.

Remapping the Universe

In this video, Jeff Han and Phil Davidson demonstrate how a multitouch driven computer screen will (someday) change the way we work and play.

Podtech MS Research clip

New Multi-touch Video

Another multi-touch demo video featuring the inventor Jeff Han, at TED 2007.

Videos like this make me excited yet sad... excited because it's innovative & creative & the way computers should be, but sad because for an average person like me on an average income the chances of me being able to own something like that any time soon is about the same as me being able to own a Lamborghini soon. Or it's like seeing a really cool commercial for an IMAX movie I'd love to see and then remembering that there aren't any IMAX theaters out here in hickville...

Can't Touch This - Jeff Han - Touch Screen

Very fucking cool...

Why gigantic screens are the best computer upgrades ever.

Whether you're a PC or Mac user, the humongous 24-inch iMac that Apple unwrapped on Wednesday drives home a point: Speed is good, but spread is better.

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3D Desktop! TouchScreen and XGL on Linux (part 2)

"This video shows what is possible when you use touchscreen + XGL on linux."

Xgl Demo

This is a Xgl demo from a user at kde-apps.org

SuSe 10.1

SuSe 10.1 (a linux distro) utilizing Xgl/Open GL , creating amazing screen/desktop effects.