SarcasticGamer puts things into perspective with this parody video of Microsoft Surface :)

More from the multi-touch bandwagon, although I should point out this isn’t a product from Hewlett Packard, but an interactive marketing tool for the D5 conference, created by San Francisco agency Obscura Digital (on behalf of ad agency Goodby Silverstein Partners).
The surface lets you browse through 5 years of D conference videos, photos, articles and […]

Continuing research into applications of multi-touch, Microsoft have just announced their multi-touch and tangible interface named Surface. A 30 inch display built into this table demonstrates many of the models of interaction we have seen previously, but is the first to be mass produced for market. Using camera tracking and a wide angle […]

Continuing my investigation into possible interaction models and methods of production in multi-touch surfaces, I thought it was time for an update post.
For anyone new to this area, back in August 2005 I posted the work of Jeff Han, a multi-touch surface using reflection of infrared light and computer vision. Jeff then displayed his […]

BoingBoing have just posted a link to a video demonstration & explanation of Jeff Han multi-touch interaction. Watch video at TED Talks. The interaction demos have been seen before, but good to hear a rapid explanation from Jeff.
Previous posts on multi-touch interaction:
Multi-Touch Sensing through Frustrated Total Internal Reflection
Multi-Touch Interaction Roundup
tabulaTouch
Tangent
Jens Wunderling

Ok my last multi-touch post for a while. Jens Wunderling, a student of digital media class UDK Berlin, had also been creating a multi-touch surface for a community noticeboard project.
Jens began his project quite some time ago, but has had to put it on hold to complete other university work. The whole process has […]

More examples of multi-touch surface interaction, this time in the form of Tangent, created by students Christian Iten and Daniel Lüthi.
Also using the FTIR technique camera tracking technique. The videos show a variety of interaction model demos, whilst not as complex as some of Jefs’ work, its a great diploma project. They have however […]

Created by Stefano Baraldi (at Natural Interaction), tabulaTouch is a multi-touch sensing platform for tabletop interaction. The first application tabulaMaps allows gestural zooming and navigation over maps. Watch a video.
Although using Frustrated Total Internal Reflection as premiered by Jef Han, Stefano was developing a similar technique for this Lightable when Jefs paper on the […]

Jeff Han

Back in August last year I posted a project by Jeff Han that demonstrated how a multi-touch surface could work using internal reflection of infrared light and camera tracking. Since then he has been working with a number of demos with collaborators, including many from Philip Davidson, two from Casey Muller and one […]

I was aware of the work by Jeff Han some time ago, but was reminded (Design is Kinky) to look at his site again. A couple of recent projects caught my eye.
Multi-Touch Sensing through Frustrated Total Internal Reflection
If you have ever seen Lemur (a $2495 multi touch surface) then you will understand what this is. […]