Business Week review of touch computing
Jeff Hun
8 years after Minority Report, gesture and touch are on their way to become mainstream interfaces. (This is also another example of how the experimental interface research which in the 1990s was seen only in digital art exhibitions or computer science conferences is now rather quickly making its way into consumer electronics products all around us. )
Business Week:
Touch Computing Hits Its Stride | June 28, 2008.
The article talks about the following products and research projects:
Microsoft Surface.
Microsoft TouchWall.
Microsoft Windows 7 (due in 2010) running on a touchscreen laptop and responding to gestures.
Apple iPhone and MacBook Air.
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories: DiamondTouch.
Acnhors on CNN using “Magic Wall” (designed by Jef Hun / Perceptive Pixel).
Hewlett-Packard’s TouchSmart PC
Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) Misto, a prototype touchscreen system built into a coffee table.
MIT Media Lab projects: PICO, I/O Brush, Tangible Bits Lab.