Ok, so the last but one post was about a new touch screen technology being developed by a lab in the UK under Microsoft. Well, I wasn’t a massive fan and I said as much in my post. The idea of a touch screen laptop with multi-touch sensing is fantastic, but the demonstration video (posted in the blog) didn’t show the technology too well, and I don’t think the design was too intuitive.

Well, I was searching the old youtube.com this morning quite idly, and found this amazing video from a technology conference in the States. The chap doing the demonstration is Jeff Han and must be a professor (says he works at NYU) in computer design/software/hardware GUI application or something. The screen he is using is a 36″ tablet, which allows multi-touch sensing and manipulation of graphics in such an intuitive way that it seems so natural what he was doing nothing was a surprise. Well, there was obviously some surprise at the smoothness of the graphics and the fact that it was such an intuitive system - but the input methods were so obvious it really is a pleasure to watch. So here it is, enjoy!

I will be first in line to buy one of these - I just hope it’s Mac compatible!

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