Sep 15, 2009

Applications for touch, multi-touch, and gesture interaction: What's Marching to Market?

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
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"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
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/09/LifeBook_T5010_multitouch.jpg


DELL LATITUDE XT2
 Dell Latitude XT2 Tablet PC


http://i.dell.com/images/global/products/latit/latit_highlights/laptop-latitude-xt2-overview3.jpg






 












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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