Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th May 2008 21:46 UTC
Multitouch has more or less turned into a buzzword these days - sometimes, its implementation makes sense and comes out as pretty useful (see the iPhone and Microsoft's Surface), however, other implementations turn out be debatable. There is another implementation out there, one that received a lot less attention from the press than the aforementioned cases: Jeff Han's Perceptive Pixel.
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The CNN tittilation is mental masturbation.
It's perfect for the War Room Scenario but in general use it makes Star Trek Next Generation and everything that followed seemed more interesting.
It's re-representing data in a more "hands on" way of not using a mouse, on a big wall.
Greaaaat. Now I can see this being useful for Scientists, specifically climate changes in real-time, geological activities of fault line shifts, etc., but none of that has anything to do with this Big Screen, other than it's a cute way to zoom in and out while in a standing presentation position.
What makes or breaks such displays aren't the Interfaces, but the power of the tools these interfaces are connected with and their intended purposes.
Zooming in and out of National->State->County->City view over and over with Red vs. Blue demographics, repeat and rinse 5,000 times ala CNN gets boring real fast.