Quick Multi-touch News Links & Pics: GestureTek's 42-inch Multi-touch GestTable; NUITEQ News; 3M's 20 Touch Multi-touch, Visual Planet's Adjustable Multi-touch Surface....

MORE MULTI-TOUCH
GestureTek News

- GestureTek intros 42-inch multitouch GestTable, your HDTV suddenly turns jealous. (Darren Murph, Engadget, 6/9/10)
"This 42-inch beast of a table contains a multitouch LCD with a lovely 1080p resolution, which means that you could theoretically watch the next installation of the Batman series on the same surface that's holding your cup of joe."   (A 70-inch version will be coming soon...)   GestureTek (Thanks to Seth Sandler for the link!)
NUITEQ News
NUITEQ wins prestigious Red Herring 100 Europe award
N-trig to show NUITEQ's Snowflake Suite with stylus support at SID in Seattle on May 23-28
NUITEQ releases version 1.9.1 of its award-winning multi-touch software product Snowflake Suite





3M News  3M Touch Systems introduces a 20-Finger Multi-Touch Display (BusinessWire 5/25/10)   The 3M touch screen pictured below uses projected capacitive technology.

VISUAL PLANET News

Design and Technology Student creates Interactive Coffee table 5/5/10

Visual Planet’s ViP Interactive Foil has been innovatively used by a student from King’s School Sixth Form in Rochester, UK to create an aesthetically pleasing and extremely creative coffee table inviting interaction from the family.

NUITEQ’s Snowflake Suite now compatible with Visual Planet’s Dual Touch Zoom and Rotate Foils
4/2010 - aNUITEQ®, an award winning technology company, announced today that its multi-touch software product Snowflake Suite is compatible with the worlds number #1 touch foil from Visual Planet.

I like the adjustable multi-touch table from Visual Planet.   Details later!

Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions (and a side trip of the color strata)

This is one of the books on my summer reading list.  I planned on buying this book last summer.  I got around to ordering it a few days ago, and today, it arrived in the mail.  


Nathan Yau,  the author of Flowing Data, was responsible for the first chapter, "Seeing Your Life in Data".   I'm a fan of the Flowing Data blog. Nathan shares quite a bit of interesting- and beautiful- information on his blog.  For example, his recent post, Strata of common and not so common colors, 





"The Color Strata includes the 200 most common color names (excluding black-white-grayish tones), organized by hue horizontally and relative usage vertically, stacked by overall popularity, shaded representatively, and labeled where possible. Besides filtering spam, ignoring cruft, normalizing grey to gray, and correcting the most egregious misspellings (here’s looking at you, fuchsia), the results are otherwise unadulterated."  - via Stephen, of Weather Sealed


After looking at all of the colors,  I followed Nathan's links and the links from his links (I love colorful rabbit holes!)... and found this graphic about the differences between girls and boys, from Doghouse Diaries, on the xkcd blog:

John Underkolffler Demonstrates G-Speak-collaborative, multi-display interaction (TED Talk Video by John Underkloffer, Minority Report science advisor)

John Underkloffer Points to the Future of UI (User Interface)


"Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak -- the real-life version of the film's eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow's computers will be controlled?"

In this video, technologies that have been around for 10-15 years are demonstrated, along with newer user interface interaction, navigation, manipulation, and analysis techniques. Includes 3D interaction as well as collaborative, multi-display interaction.


"Media should be accessible, in fine grained form."

New iPhone, 3G, NOT 4G, June 21st: Front-facing camera with HD video and editing capability. Available through AT &T. Post includes video.

Fast Facts:
3G, NOT 4G :[
The square rim is the antennae.
960 by 640 resolution.
3.5-inch screen.
Multiple applications at the same time.
Stronger battery life.
Video recording in high definition: Shoot and edit capabilities!
Front-facing video camera for video calls and conferences.
5 mega pixel camera.
AT&T. No Verizon : [


-Wall Street Journal

Apple iPhone 4 Website


-Wall Street Journal Online

Egregious Citations Issued to BP, via Nathan Yau of Flowing Data (cross-post)

Interesting post with related data visualizations and a few comments:
Egregious Citations Issued to BP
Nathan Yau 6/6/10

SOMEWHAT RELATED
Flowing Data's Beginner's Guide -A Guided Tour

Cross-posted on The World Is My Interface

Interactive 360-degree video demo-reel from Yellowbird

A while ago I posted about the Yellowbird 6-lens 360 degree video camera, and promised I'd share some a Yellowbird video when I had a chance. As you watch the video, you can click and drag anywhere in the scene to get another view.

Enjoy!

Yellowbird Interactive 3D Showcase


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About Yellowbird
Yellowbird Newsletter
Yellowbird created a 360-degree interactive video tour for the Dutch Batavia Stad website, a fashion and style company. Some of the navigation is in "3-D", and at various points, the viewer can click on an icon to view a regular video-clip to obtain additional information.
Batavia Stad 360 Tour
Choose and Move Your Own POV (Point of View): Interactive 360-degree video of on-line performances from the MTV-U Woodie Awards