Minority Report may have brought the concept to the public’s attention, but Jeff Han is the pioneer in the development of multi-touch screens which Apple is using on the iPhone and eventually on their computers and iPods. While we’ve had single touch screens for a long time, and while, in a sense, multi-touch isn’t that revolutionary, it’s only now that we’ve all got PCs powerful enough to use them to full effect. His website has a number of videos showing what he’s doing with them.
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My old computer was AMIGA, not wintel…I had 4,096 colors…NOT 256.
20, Some of us dinosaurs remember a time when people said things like “We already have keyboards…what’s the point of some gimmick that moves useless little pictures around on the screen? It’ll never fly.”
Right on. I can imagine what I could do with this tech. Let the others keep the boring spreadsheets and word processors. Damn Neo-Luddites…
#20: Display screens? Who needs display screens when my teletype works just fine!
Teletype? You had a Teletype?
‘Ooo! Ooo! No more buttered scones for me, Mater, I’m orf to read what’s on my bleedin’ Teletype.‘
You lot don’t know how easy you’ve got it! Why, we had naught but wee pairs of lights for each bit in the registers, and we were lucky t’have them!
Teletype! Why, I never!
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