Multitouch + NUI: The Next Killer App: Augmented Reality

Link: Multitouch + NUI: The Next Killer App: Augmented Reality

Haptic Reader For The Blind by David Lee, Yuna Kim & Hansub Lee » Yanko Design

The Universal Phone For The Blind And Sighted by Seunghan Song » Yanko Design

The Window Phone Concept by Seunghan Song » Yanko Design

The Blackhole Phone Concept by Seunghan Song » Yanko Design

3D Hologram Desktop Concept by Mac Funamizu » Yanko Design

Universal Cellular Phone by Seon-Keun Par » Yanko Design

Interactive Multimedia Technology: Bump Top 3D Desktop on a Touch Screen: Toss Your Photos to your Facebook Icon!

Link: Interactive Multimedia Technology: Bump Top 3D Desktop on a Touch Screen: Toss Your Photos to your Facebook Icon!

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Multi-Touch Technologies Book Release

Link: Multi-Touch Technologies Book Release

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Multi Touch Firefox

Link: Multi Touch Firefox

We’re working on exposing the multitouch data from the system to regular web pages through DOM Events, and all of these demos are built on top of that.

Sneak peak on multitouch events

DIY IR Touch Pad

When 2 shadows are detected (one by each laser), it calculates the XY coordinate of each shadow. Using simple algebra, I will be able to calculate the equation for each line that is created (between laser and shadow), and then find where the 2 lines intersect (where my finger is).

TRKBRD XY Coordinate Success! on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Graphic Tablet integrated Laptop

Bringing portability to the work of professional designers, designer Victor Bivol has developed a laptop concept that integrating a tablet lets the professionals use a heavy graphic tablet on the go, even without disrupting their work.

Victor Bivol’s Laptop, Portable Brilliance For Professional Designers - The Design blog

Spatial Multi Touch

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“Minority Report” interface using Flash and FLAR toolkit

ActionScript programmer Peter Kaptein has done some brilliantly creative work to mimic the infamous gestural interface in the film Minority Report using only Flash, a webcam, a printer, and your fingers.

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Links:

• “Minority Report” interface using Flash and FLAR toolkit


• Minority Report Interface, Implemented in Flash + FLARToolkit, and Why it Rocks

RIM All-in-One Touch Screen Patent

Electronic Device and Touch Screen Display

A touch screen display includes a display device, a resistive touch-sensitive overlay disposed on the display device and including a pair of touch-sensor layers separated by a gap, a resistive touch screen controller connected to each of the pair of touch-sensor layers for determining a position of a touch event on the touch-sensitive overlay and a capacitive controller connected to an outer one of the pair of touch-sensor layers for receiving input for determining changes resulting from capacitive coupling with the outer one of the pair of touch-sensor layers.

 

An all-in-one touch screen patent of RIM -

HTC Patent Application for Capacitive Touch Screen Stylus

Stylus and Electronic Device

An electronic device including a device body and a stylus is provided. The device body has a capacitive touch panel. The stylus has a handle and a head. The head is magnetic. The capacitive touch panel is controlled by the stylus through magnetism of the head.

 

STYLUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE -

Multi-Touch Remote Control on a Tabletop

Link: Multi-Touch Remote Control on a Tabletop

CRISTAL (Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces) is a extreme simple user interface for controlling multimedia devices and home automation systems.

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Searching Fonts on a Table

Link: Searching Fonts on a Table

Fontplore is an interactive application designed for searching and exploring font databases.

Fontplore Showreel from Mphasize on Vimeo.

Touch Screen Panel Key Component Industry Trends - ITO Film

Link: Touch Screen Panel Key Component Industry Trends - ITO Film

Key points are expected to include ITO film development for an exclusive electric capacity use, which has not yet been standardized, ITO film development for targeted few makers, and ITO development with outstanding properties regarding few selected applications in order to differentiate product developments from the other makers.

interactive scape

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Surface Editor

Link: Surface Editor

The Surface Editor is a flexible mapping editor, which transforms multi-touch devices into musical instruments.

Acoustic touch sensing

ScratchInput and Stane in the previous post are for gesture recognition. The acoustic sensing technology can be applied to implement touch screens or surfaces. Tai-chi (Tangible Acoustic Interfaces for Computer Human Interaction) is a EU-funded research project that changes ordinary objects to touch sensitive interactive surfaces. Just see a video clip below. In the demo video, the system detects touch (scratching) position using four microphones.

And this video shows a demo of touch gesture recognition.

 
Commercially, Elo TouchSystems has introduced a touch screen using Acoustic Pulse Recognition (APR), whose sensing technology is similar with that of Tai-Chi.

See also: Tai-Chi – Future Interactive Interface

Life Amplifier Digital Photograph Display by Wei Chung Lee » Yanko Design

Fabric Touch Pad

Hannah Perner-Wilson made this soft stroke sensor from some conductive thread and fabric. When the sensor is stroked, the fibers touch each other in a different way than when still, transmitting the signal to a computer or microcontroller.

Make: Online : Soft stroke sensor

Surface that hears your touch

CMU student Chris Harrison has showed off an acoustic touch gesture recognition technique called scratch input. The idea is very intuitive. When you write something on a surface, it produces a unique acoustic wave (left figure). Therefore, with a microphone and carefully designed pattern recognition software, scratch input detects and recognizes simple touch gestures drawn on any solid surfaces and soft fabrics.

 

 

 

Stane is a similar research work done by researchers at Glasgow university.

 

iPhone Steampunk Concept is Surely the Most Bizarre Design Ever | Concept Phones

LG S-Class Smart Phone User Interface

LG recently introduced their new smartphone user interface, called S-Class: one of the nicest smartphone experiences around.

 

 

You can experience the emulator, play the 3D game or download the 3D widget at http://sclassui.lgmobile.com

 

SmartMeasure Kitchen Measuring Cup by Ryan Eder & Chris Daniels of Priority Designs » Yanko Design

Capacitive sensing can make the digital cups

Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors' blog: Five Futuristic Interfaces on Display at SIGGRAPH

Link: Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors' blog: Five Futuristic Interfaces on Display at SIGGRAPH

In Progress… Interactive MultiTouch Sphere. on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Andy Wilson Q&A @ Interactive Displays 2009 on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Andy Wilson’s Talk @ Interactive Displays 2009 on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Touchpad Pro

Link: Touchpad Pro

Touchpad Pro lets you wirelessly control your PC or Mac through your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Touchpad Pro

Link: Touchpad Pro

Touchpad Pro lets you wirelessly control your PC or Mac through your iPhone or iPod Touch.

ITO is an essential material to construct touch screens. There are many candidate alternatives - Graphene, ZNT, and CNT. Now, Nickle also wants to challenge ITO.

(via Nickel electrodes challenge ITO in OLED test - nanotechweb.org

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