Why you should listen to him: Jeff Han's intuitive "interface-free" computer displays -- controlled by the touch of fingertips -- will change forever the way you think about computers. At TED 2006, *the audience whistled, clapped and gasped audibly as Han demoed (for the first time publicly) his prototype drafting table-cum-touch display*, developed at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences <http://www.cims.nyu.edu/>. The demo included a virtual lightbox, where he moved photos by fingertip -- as if they were paper on a desk -- flicking them across the screen and zooming in and out by pinching two fingers together, as well as a Google Earth-like map that he tilted and flew over with simple moves.
When the demo hit the web, bloggers and YouTubers made him a bit of a megastar. (His video has been watched more than 600,000 times on YouTube alone; "Amazing," "Incredible" and "Freaking awesome" are the typical responses there. Also: *"When can I buy one?"*) After this legendary demo, Han launched a startup called Perceptive Pixel<http://www.perceptivepixel.com/>-- and when he came back to TED2007, he and his team brought an entire interactive wall, where TEDsters lined up to play virtual guitars. "Working all but alone from his hardware-strewn office, Jeff Han is about to change the face of computing. Not even the big boys are likely to catch him." *Fast Company* On 6/22/07, nepbabu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 09:16:43PM +0545, Shishir Jha wrote: > > I have been looking for some Touch Screens too, and I think that the > best > > option for is to use a LCD Screen with a touch screen overlay over it. I > did > > find a overlay manufacturer who supplies drivers for the overlay for > Redhat, > > which can be changed to .deb package. THe cost was some around 160$ for > the > > overlay. > > A bit of Googling on touchscreen gave me > http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65 > > Enjoy! > > Cheers. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
