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 ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Douglas Knudsen Sent: Thu 9/20/2007 9:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFFUG Discuss] BumpTop (Replace Desktop) 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 Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 5:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFFUG Discuss] BumpTop (Replace Desktop) 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.... 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