Every week or so, I hear about a new multi-touch enabled laptop.Today, I came across a review on Gizmodo about the Lenovo ThinkPad T400, which is a 14.1 capacitive touchscreen laptop that can handle four touches at once:
Lenovo ThinkPad T400s with Multitouch Review: Finger Flicking Fun
The Multitouch ThinkPad in Action
Lenovo ThinkPad T400s with Multitouch from Gizmodo on Vimeo.
SCREENSHOT
"The screen is pure beauty. Like a capacitive touchscreen phone, light taps on the display are responsive and you don't have to think about positioning your finger in a certain way to open apps or rearrange windows." - Joanna Stern, Gizmodo, 9/15/09
OTHER EXAMPLES
THE FUJITSU LIFEBOOK T5010
Add the Fujitsu LifeBook t5010 to the Windows 7 Multitouch Laptop List
Gizmodo, Joanna Stern, 9/15/09
DELL LATITUDE XT2
TOUCH DEMO- HP TOUCHSMART TX2 & WINDOWS 7
AIR HOCKEY FOR WINDOWS 7: IDENTITY MINE
FINGERTAPPS
Want to create something multi-touch?
It looks like there will be a growing need for Windows 7 application developers. Here's some code examples using Windows Presentation Foundation and the Windows 7 Multitouch API
Windows 7 Multitouch Application Development, Part I (The Code Project: Kunal Chowdhury)
Other Developer Resources
Touchlib Multi-touch Development Kit (NUI GROUP)
MSDN Windows Touch: Developer Resources
nTrig's Multi-Touch Download for Windows 7
NUITech's Snowflake Suite for NextWindow
TouchKit Multi-touch Development Kit
GestureWorks Flash Multitouch SDK
3M Multi-touch Developer Kit
RELATED
Touch-less Interaction from lm3labs
Create the future you want. with ubiq'window from Nicolas Loeillot on Vimeo.
More about gesture interaction and multi-touch can be found on this blog- do a search!
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