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‘multi-touch’

Fully Reviewed: Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet

29 Nov, 2011 by Jeffrey Matthias in REVIEWS, TECH
3D Human CAD Models

I declared a couple of months ago that Lenovo had marketed its ThinkPad Tablet to the wrong crowd. It’s 10″ screen and pressure sensitive stylus made it stick out as the first real contender for the title of Cintiq-on-the-cheap. Lucky me, someone at Lenovo read the post and offered up a review unit. Of course, I couldn’t pass that up. So… after a few couple of months using this thing as much as I could, I am walking away with mixed feelings about the device. Overall it’s a good piece of equipment, but depending on what you are looking for out of a tablet, it is either the solution you’ve been waiting for or yet another tease. Hit the jump for a full review.

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Perceptive Pixels to Touchscreen Makers. We have the Most Advanced Display in the WORLD.

17 May, 2011 by Josh Mings in TECH

You see that guy? He’s enjoying life… enjoying the heck out it. Just look at him. He’s jabbin’ his meat nub against that 27″ touchscreen screen and loving it. Whoa! He just moved that skull slice with multiple fingers?! He’s dangerous and he knows it.

Who’s making all this possible? I’ll give you one guess and then interrupt you by just saying, “Perceptive Pixels, that’s who.” They’ve taken their massive 55″ wall unit technology you’ve seen on CNN, squished it down to a reasonable size and will be making it available to the general public in the unforeseen future. Another classy photo and video of what it could be like after the jump.

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You Will Be a Product Development DJ with This Table

06 Aug, 2010 by Josh Mings in TECH

Actually, who cares about product development at this point. You’ll be the DJ, up in the front of your office as people tear off their blazers and patent leather loafers.

DJ Pablo Martin has launched a new MIDI multitouch controller called Emulator. The multitouch screen you’ll see is called Token and developed by Yöyen Munchausen out of Chile. Emulator is created to work on Windows7 and the best capacitive touch screen you can find. After that, it’s all up to you, your fly hat and and a dope mix to make all the party people say “yooooo!!!”

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5 Screen Technologies to Lap the Laminate Off Your Desktop

02 Jun, 2010 by Josh Mings in TECH

So, you just bought a 30″ LCD screen to replace a 24″ LCD screen to replace a 17″ CRT monitor that replaced a slice of bread you stabbed toothpicks at to prove you knew the future of touch screen technology 10 years ago.

You were right, and now there’s a slew of options becoming available that will replace whatever collects fingerprints atop your dusty desktop. Some are being revealed this week at Computex 2010 where MSI is smashing everyone with their line-up, but all are impressive and show just how fast display tech is moving. Here’s five you’ll want to watch.

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Using Multi-touch in SpaceClaim. The Future of Direct Modeling and 3D Design.

30 Mar, 2010 by Josh Mings in TECH

While I was growing up, I’d occasionally run towards a wall, jam my fingers up into my arms, pass out and wake up to dogs dragging me off into the woods. Fortunately, the dogs were my pets and my fingers healed into agile implements of multi-touch destruction.

And thankfully so. At SolidWorks World 2010 I sat down with Blake Courter to try the new multi-touch features released with SpaceClaim 2009+ late last year. He snickered at my deformed knuckles, but observed in awe my reaction to what I’m positive will be tech that shapes the future of 3D modeling.

Here’s why.

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21.3 Inches of Wacom Cintiq Multi-touch Spotted In the Wild

11 Feb, 2010 by Josh Mings in TECH

There’s a multi-touch rash starting to spread across the butt-checks of CAD that no penetrating ointment will cure. So, when SolidWorks demonstrated their future platform independent MCAD platform it was no surprise to see some multi-touch features thrown into the mix.

However, what’s supremely interesting is not the multi-touch, but the device being multi-touched. It’s what we thought looked very much like a Wacom 21UX Cintiq. EXACTLY like one, except one major difference. It had both stylus and those fancy multi-touch capabilities.

So, after quite a bit of digging and verifying through a few channels what we suspected, it’s confirmed this is indeed a prototype Wacom Cintiq Multi-touch with a tentative retail appearance slated for Update Summer 2010 (this has been recanted by Wacom, however I will make the assertion that we will see this Q4 of 2010.) Here are the shots from the show.

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Design UI: Toss the Surface, Multi-touch Where Ever You Go

30 Nov, 2009 by Josh Mings in TECH

I think it’s about time to leave the table-top to coffee spills and action movie fight scenes. Why? Because who needs to interact with a table-top multi-touch surface when you can interact with any surface… anywhere.

Pranav Mistry has his own idea on what it means to fully utilize your environment and all the objects within it. He’s taken a lot of common devices, a dash of augmented reality and slapped it all into a device you wear around your neck. In this recent TED talk he shows you what the possibilities are.

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BumpTop 1.2 Plus Multi-Touch Action Equals… Almost There

02 Oct, 2009 by Josh Mings in TECH

Just look at those happy digits going at it with pure multi-touch tappin’ delight. Cool desktop UI’s are great fun to play with, but with Windows 7 launching October 22nd and many already using it, multi-touch and UI’s are about to converge.

Bumptop is on it. Version 1.2, you can download right now, has all the multi-touch support you need for getting more out of a UI. Take a look at the video and tell me this isn’t going to change how you work or affect how other programs incorporate touch gestures. Now to get it off a 2D screen.

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Best Application of Touchscreen TableTop Tech Yet. Still A Table.

20 Aug, 2009 by Josh Mings in TECH

Gather round the coffee table family. You’re about to see one of the most gut-grabbin’, practical applications of touchscreen tech yet.

Your coffee table serves a lot of purposes, but Media Interaction Lab has one more to make your odd-looking neighbors peer in amazement, through the back window..

The premise is simple. Make the coffee table a universal remote control for the entire house. And it’s exactly what they’ve done, with CRISTAL.
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SpaceClaim Bringing in Multi-touch Capabilities. 3D CAD Geometry is Shocked. {Video}

20 Jul, 2009 by Josh Mings in NEWS, TECH

Multi-touch will never happen with 3D CAD… OH, except it has… or will be, this fall. The company showing the potential? SpaceClaim.

There’s no announcement out of the company yet, but a video surfaced on YouTube over the weekend showing the future of what we’re assuming will be the next release of SpaceClaim. We’ll gather more info as quickly as possible. Until then, feast your eyes on the deliberate movements and multi-touch goodness of 3D-modeling in SpaceClaim.

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