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TouchKit: Open Source Multi-Touch
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| TouchKit comprises both hardware and software components. On the software
| side, the API is implemented as an addon to OpenFrameworks. This gives it
| cross-platform compatibility with OS X, Windows, and Linux, though you're
| going to need to be comfortable hacking around in a pre-release C++ framework
| to make use of it. The software is licensed LGPLv3.
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http://ostatic.com/171721-blog/touchkit-open-source-multi-touch
This idea was implement years ago by several independent groups using GNU/Linux
(see below). Microsoft played catch-up, as usual.
Recent:
Microsoft's Robbie Bach 'thought about killing' Surface
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| "I didn't have a clear line of sight on what the business model was," Bach
| said. "I was always asking myself whether we could afford to keep it."
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| Surface did have one important cheerleader: Bill Gates.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9956880-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Microsoft Rips off Researchers at Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona
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| Recently while on vacation I was flipping channels and came across a
| channel called “current TV”, what caught my eye was a computer booting
| to Kubuntu. This computer looked remarkably like Microsoft’s new
| Surface touch table. Funny thing is the reactable has been around
| over three years and research has been going on much longer than that.
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http://dthomasdigital.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/microsoft-rips-off-researchers-at-pompeu-fabra-university-of-barcelona/
Jeff Han's Research Ripped by Microsoft Surface?
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| Jeff Han, consulting research scientist for NYU's Department of
| Computer Science, developed a multi-touch interactive graphical
| interface, which he presented at the TED conference over a year
| ago. His research turned into its own company, Perceptive Pixel.
|
| Now it seems Microsoft completely ripped the idea and created
| Microsoft Surface.
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http://www.jorispoort.com/2007/05/jeff-hans-research-ripped-by-microsoft.html
Microsoft Surface idea not that new?
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| An attached PC, running Linux and Reactrix software, calculates the
| location and movement of an object interrupting the beam and enables
| the system to allow a basic interaction with projected content.
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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32389/118/
Microsoft's Surface is evidence that Redmond is losing it
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| Basically, Microsoft is thinking that we will interact with our
| computers like Tom Cruise in the movie Minority Report. That is,
| that we will zing objects around with our fingers on a display that
| interacts with whatever you put on it. While on the surface, this
| seems like a cool idea, I think it shows a lack of foresight on
| their part.
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http://www.robneville.net/rants/microsofts-surface-is-evidence-that-redmond-is-losing-it/2007/06/
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