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orcinus · 06-23-2007, 10:07 AM

The IR approach - nice idea, although not revolutionary nor unseen.
Multitouch - old, ooold, oooooold...
Gestures - there used to be a company called Fingerworks that used to make (& sell) replacement touch panel keyboards for PowerBooks (among other things)... Except typing, it supported quite a nifty batch of multi-finger gestures, for pointing, scrolling, rotating, zooming, dragging, copying, pasting and lots more. There were also specific sets of gestures for various apps, i.e. Photoshop, Maya, Emacs etc.

All other companies, like apple or microsoft, claiming they were the first or revolutionary (gesture-wise) are just delusional

See here:
http://www.fingerworks.com/userguides.html

06-23-2007, 10:07 AM	#9
orcinus Gadgeteer Posts: 222 Karma: 540 Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Croatia Device: iRex iLiad, Sony PRS-500, Nokia 770, BB 7200, Samsung i600, iPhone	The IR approach - nice idea, although not revolutionary nor unseen. Multitouch - old, ooold, oooooold... Gestures - there used to be a company called Fingerworks that used to make (& sell) replacement touch panel keyboards for PowerBooks (among other things)... Except typing, it supported quite a nifty batch of multi-finger gestures, for pointing, scrolling, rotating, zooming, dragging, copying, pasting and lots more. There were also specific sets of gestures for various apps, i.e. Photoshop, Maya, Emacs etc. All other companies, like apple or microsoft, claiming they were the first or revolutionary (gesture-wise) are just delusional See here: http://www.fingerworks.com/userguides.html