Multi-touch is in fact not a new idea.
 
(from Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini's blog. He is a principal with the Nielsen Norman 
Group <http://www.nngroup.com/>  
http://www.asktog.com/columns/070iPhoneFirstLook.html, 

Multi-Touch Interface History


While the iPhone as a whole may be revolutionary, the individual elements 
forming the interface are not so new. Bill Buxton <http://www.billbuxton.com/>  
was pushing multi-hand input back in the 1980s when the world was just waking 
up to the mouse, already 20 years old at the time.  Several researchers were 
experimenting with gestural interfaces in 1990s, myself included.  I was 
reminded of this only minutes after Steve's speech when my partner, Jakob 
Nielsen, called me to say, "Jobs just announced your pinch interface!" 

I hadn't thought about my particular use of the pinch gesture in years.  It had 
been part of my Starfire Project <http://www.asktog.com/starfire/index.html>  
at Sun Microsystems, a look at the future, but, when we turned the project into 
a film, the scene showing it was cut to keep the film within reasonable bounds. 
That kept it out of the 1993 film, but not out of my 1996 book, Tog on Software 
Design, where, on page 78, my two-fingered shrink-objects-via-pinching gesture, 
working exactly as Jobs described, indeed appears...

Jonathan Thompson | Senior Flash Developer | mobile: 404-509-9591 | 
AvenueA-Razorfish

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http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1041
adding to this old thread...seems these folks will be at some little bitty tiny 
conference in Chicago soon. 

DK


On 8/16/07, AppDeveloper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

        I'm certainly glad things are more viral.  The time from concept to 
prime time production is getting shorter.  Is this a sign of things to come 
with Web 3.0?   (Yes, I just jumped past 2.0)   More and more apps with a 
skeletal structure of mashups stitched together with a homogenous theme/skin, 
easily branded per client? 
         
        Precia
        
         
        
        On 8/16/07, Jeremy Dost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

                Yeah This is essentially the UI for the new Microsoft surface 
thing   http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ <http://www.microsoft.com/surface/> 

                But I think that it first came out at TED last year 
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65   which has already filtered down 
to the iphone

                Amazing how fast this stuff moves once it's out

                 

                jeremy

                 

                 

                From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] On Behalf Of AppDeveloper
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                In the FlexShow podcast, McCune specifically said he go his 
idea and copied the concept from this site.

                 

                Precia
                
                 

                On 8/16/07, Douglas Knudsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

                nice!  What's with the 'mac-daddy pimp developer' ?  
                reminds me of Doug Mcune's http://tileui.com/
                
                thanks!
                
                DK

                On 8/16/07, AppDeveloper < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> > wrote:

                        If you don't listen to the FlexShow podcast..then this 
will be new info....

                         

                        This is a good way to replace your Windows / Mac 
Desktop UI

                        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ

                         

                        If you want to see the site http://www.bumptop.com/

                         

                        Precia

                        
                        
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