I don’t brandish the phrase “The most amazing thing I have ever seen” around very often - but this could be one of those moments.
Current touch screen technology is pretty weak. I remember touch screen Macs ten-fifteen years ago (Whenever my dad bought his Classic II - I stood playing with it for half an hour) and things haven’t moved on a great deal. It’s like using a mouse, but with your finger.
This example of “Bi-manual, multi-point, and multi-user interactions on a graphical interaction surface” is a cross between a tablet PC and a Korg Kaoss Pad. The demonstration is of a 36″ x 27″ panel that can be controlled by all fingers on both hands at the same time - no cursor, no scrolling, no thing you have ever seen before.
To Jeff Han and all involved at New York University - I salute you!
You can read more about it at the project’s website, and watch the video at YouTube.com
(Image credit: Jeff Han)
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The touch technology is really good, and if you watch closely the controls are really simple to operate. The leap is obviously in the electronics to detect multiple events & pressures. I would like to see what’s behind all this..