Open-Source, Multitouch Display
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| Engineers are building inexpensive, tabletop, touch-screen displays and
| sharing the instructions online.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/advertisement.aspx?ad=infotech&id=32&redirect=%2FInfotech%2F20703%2F%3Fa%3Df
AMD pretends that open standards are open source.
AMD touts open source tools for client management
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| Indeed, open standards are a concept that is widely accepted, as evidenced by
| Intel’s vPro updates last August. As part of its disclosure, Intel said at
| that time that it expected PCs with this version of Intel vPro processor
| technology to be among the first to comply with the DMTF’s DASH 1.0 draft
| interoperability specification and web services management.
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http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6556283
Related:
In Brazil, a local alternative to the OLPC
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| The tabletop PCs will have WiFi connectivity, Intel Celeron processors, small
| solid-state drives (no local hard drive) and will run a version of Linux.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9892334-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Linux MPX Multi-touch Table May Become Alternative Microsoft Surface
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| It may not be as fancy-schmancy as Microsoft Surface or Jeff Han's demos but
| this video of a Linux-based MPX multi-touch table shows that things are
| moving full speed ahead in the land of the free penguins.
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http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/touch-me/linux-mpx-multi+touch-table-may-become-free-diy-microsoft-surface-one-day-278613.php
Multi-touch support for MPX [in Linux]
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| MPX already supported multiple input devices. Which blows pretty much all
| assumptions in user interfaces (input) out of the water. Now I've gone one
| step further and added support for multi-touch displays. Have a look at this
| video...
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http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/mpx/?q=node/86
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/
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/
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.
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| 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
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