Multitouch desk

[Mercutio]

Take a look and tell me that this is not completely awesome.

 

[Bozo]

That is awesome!

 

[CougTek]

So...All this to play Invaders?

 

[LunarMist]

I don't understand the point either. It looks like some German or other European students with nothing better to do. Maybe they could sell it to the government.

 

[BingBangBop]

To me, it looks like there is a latency issue in the game. Otherwise 10 fingers should be able to do a lot more killing. That being said, I like the form factor of the touch screen display.

 

[time]

I think it's a glimpse of the not-so-distant future, a 'touch desk'. I particularly appreciate that they used cameras instead of traditional capacitive/resistive panels.

Although the curve looks odd at first, it's actually how we work: a mix of vertical images (monitor) and horizontal (paper). That's not likely to change as long as we have gravity.

 

[ddrueding]

That is indeed very cool. I would pay considerable amounts of money for that, if there was the software to support it. I think the software development will have to come from the tablets and just get better until we get there.

 

[LunarMist]

I see RSI.

 

[sechs]

Take a look and tell me that this is not completely awesome.

This is not completely awesome. Cool, but not awesome.

Why do I need a touchscreen with a bend in it?

 

[ddrueding]

Why do I need a touchscreen with a bend in it?

Because working with your arms extended to a vertical work surface is as uncomfortable as working with your head bent looking at a horizontal work surface?

 

[sechs]

So, it's the worst of both worlds, with unnecessary complexity?

 

[MaxBurn]

Pretty nice, they seriously better be doing major touch interface improvements in the next mac and windows versions.