Re: Apple's multitouch pattent?
mathew davis wrote: Just wonderign if any body knows for sure if apple has a pattent on their multi touch technology. check out this video on google. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6379146923853181774q=moviehl=en Very impressive stuff. I mean I am sure that this would probably be a lot of processing for the neo, but just looking at the video there are so many things that you can imagine you could do with this technology. This would be a perfect peice of technology for an open community. If it is pattented then I can't wait until someone else comes up with a similar technology. I counted that they had as many as 10 touches on the same panel at one time. I wonder if they just use some kind of sectioning or something. Any way's I am just curious. That and the voice control could change the way we interace with things. I have always thought that the interface between human and machine has developed very slowly. I mean the mouse and key board have been around for ever and they are still the standard method of communicating with a machine. Just thought I would post this question here as every one here seems to be very knowledgable about this kind of thing. Well, actually the video isn't directly connected to apple ( AFAIK - maybe they are cooperating with the author, or bought his technology). The technology comes from a university ( or something like that ) project. See: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/ There is also an opensource project implementing something similar: http://www.multi-touch.de/ ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Apple's multitouch pattent?
On 03/03/07, mathew davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wonderign if any body knows for sure if apple has a pattent on their multi touch technology. check out this video on google. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6379146923853181774q=moviehl=en Very impressive stuff. I mean I am sure that this would probably be a lot of processing for the neo, but just looking at the video there are so many things that you can imagine you could do with this technology. This would be a perfect peice of technology for an open community. If it is pattented then I can't wait until someone else comes up with a similar technology. I counted that they had as many as 10 touches on the same panel at one time. I wonder if they just use some kind of sectioning or something. Any way's I am just curious. That and the voice control could change the way we interace with things. I have always thought that the interface between human and machine has developed very slowly. I mean the mouse and key board have been around for ever and they are still the standard method of communicating with a machine. Just thought I would post this question here as every one here seems to be very knowledgable about this kind of thing. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community The coolest piece of technology ever!! -- Cathal O'Brien ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Apple's multitouch pattent?
Thanks guys that is just what I wanted to hear. Now I am excited to see more of this stuff again. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Neologics
On 3/1/07, Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Community, For those of you who couldn't make it FOSDEM or Etel, I've posted our presentation here: http://www.openmoko.com/files/OpenMoko_Neologics.pdf Hello Sean, Thanks for the link. In the presentation its mentioned that the debug board will cost an additional $200. How important is the debug board for phase 1 phones ? Can we update the firmware drivers and put software, kernel, etc. on it without the board? For future versions of the phone (phase 2+), is this a necessary piece of hardware for any kind of development work ? Thanks -- Pranav Happy reading! -Sean ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- -- http://pd.dnsalias.org ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
coverage at linuxdevices.com
Nice description of the technical information, with photos of the hacker's lunchbox and car kit. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7653749655.html ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
