Saturday, May 09, 2009 – 11:43 AM EDT “Apple has seeded developers with a new version of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard),” Arnold Kim reports for MacRumors. “The build (10A354) adds one particularly interesting new feature to Apple’s Mac operating system: Chinese handwriting recognition specifically for multi-touch capable machines,” Kim reports. “This could open [...]
Even though Microsoft is no longer actively developing pptPlex, a new release of the pug-in is now available for download. The multi-touch-enabled version of pptPlex is designed to integrate seamlessly with Windows 7, the Redmond company informs, and to take advantage of the multi-touch capabilities of the operating system. This of course, provided that the [...]
Moto says its multitouch prototype (multitouch because you can use as many fingers on it as you’ve got), can be made much larger than Apple’s iconic device, and lighter than the Surface, a device so immense that it functions as little more than a novelty at hotels. (Whenever I see the Surface, I recall the [...]
With a two-finger swipe, the video played faster and with three fingers it played faster still. Zhao even did his Mike Fratello impression, circling one of the players in red with another swirl of his finger, much as the “telestrator czar” does on TV. In another corner of the cramped hallway that serves as the [...]
Sharp intros ‘world’s first optical sensor LCD pad’ netbook Named Mebius, the PC has a 4in, 854 × 480 input device that – according to Sharp – is much more than a “conventional trackpad”. Why? The pad’s ability to recognise drawings and text using the bundled stylus, and to perform the same finger-based functions – [...]
User experience (UX) principles can help you to effectively create software for multi-touch, multi-user, and gestural devices such as the Microsoft Surface. These new platforms bring new challenges, some that can be partially solved using current software design paradigms, but many that will require applying new ideas from the cutting edge of Interaction Design (IxD) [...]
BOFFINS IN THE BACK ROOMS of New York University have developed an inexpensive pressure-sensitive pad that creates images of objects that are in contact with it. It means that it will be possible to use what ever you like to touch the screen and “Inexpensive Multi-Touch Pressure Acquisition Devices (IMPAD)”, can be made paper thin [...]
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Chillingo Ltd, Europe’s premier iPhone publisher and First Star Software, Inc. have announced today at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco that they have signed a worldwide deal to co-publish the iPhone and iPod Touch version of theoriginal game in the multi-million unit selling Boulder Dash series. Boulder Dash for iPhone and iPod [...]
The iPhone and iPod Touch can become the dominant gaming platform because of constant connectivity and the App Store model, NGmoco founder Neil Young says. In order to be successful at creating iPhone games, NGmoco founder Neil Young asked one question: What would Nintendo do? Speaking at a keynote at the Game Developers Conference on [...]
The Pre, Palm’s ridiculously slick new mobile phone, stole the show at CES this year. Good looks helped, but mainly it was the Pre’s iPhone-like touchscreen technology that wowed the industry crowd. Sure, the Pre has a built-in keyboard, but all anyone wanted to do was drag their fingers along the screen and make magic [...]
