Zany touch interfaces of the future
Bored? Uninspired? Here are some juicy things to mull over.
Watch out, tons of video embeds!
Multi-touch
Systems that are “general” UI, accepting multiple touch inputs:
Touch Paint
Not multi-touch, and flawed in a number of ways I can immediately point out, but still an interesting tech demo.
Music
And some specialized ones for music. They’re not touch sensitive exactly; they are using tools and placeholders to represent audio components. Way spiffy.
AudioPad
ReacTable
Jazz Mutant
(Depressingly, no sound on these one.)
Ambient Feedback Systems
And… a couple totally cool things, but “useless” from a productivity standpoint.
Amy,
I’ve seen most of these clips before, but it is nice to have them all in one place
Here’s a link to another one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFNne9WNPmM
Which is the prototype multi touch table for Warcraft.
Nadeem, indeed, I’d seen most of them but got inspired to go look up some more when my coworker showed me the ReacTable, which I hadn’t seen.
I always like looking at things like this, anyway.
There’s some seriously cool stuff going on in the world, huh?
This is pretty awesome. It can see some pretty cool applications in the information booth and game industries. Particularly I think this tech might work well in Supreme Commander (http://www.supremecommander.com/).
Hey Amy,
thanks for this post and your comments on mine… I’d be interested to hear your thoughts (and others’ thoughts!) on something I considered when reading your comment…
These super cool ‘touch’ interfaces give us little to nothing by way of tactile cues as we interact with them, not as with buttons on a cell phone for example. Think about how useful those tactile, no-look cue really are in everything we do. I mean, c’mon, I’m even ‘touch’ typing!
Anyway, love to hear peoples’ thoughts here and on my post, http://philadams.net/2007/02/23/multi-touch-interfaces/
Man you don’t even know how long I’ve waited for this since disabling my own Movable Type widget (that doesn’t work since Haloscan bypasses that code).