What the Future Holds: Control everything on your computer with two fingers

Posted December 28, 2006 at 10:21 PM by Adam Berger

Section: Computers, Desktops, Hardware, Laptops, Software / Applications, Gadgets / Other, Miscellaneous, Robots/AI, Peripherals, Displays, Mice / Keyboards, Features, Miscellaneous, WTFH

I am not really sure how to explain this. No it isn’t that it is so techie that it doesn’t make sense, rather I am speechless.  For those of you who watched Minority Report and were drooling over the glooves Tom Cruise wore to control the computer, this is a must see.

Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Here he demonstrates—for the first time publicly—his intuitive, “interface-free,“ touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 09:32)

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