Multitouch - the talk of the industry because the future Apple iPhone will allow users to use two fingers to navigate their way through apps.
How would you use it you could use two or more fingers at one time to control a PC? Would you use it for simple things like sorting photos, resizing windows? How about playing a game?
Progress like what is being done with dual mode digitizers, which are both EM and touch, and with bi-modal, multi-point or multi-user touch is extremely interesting to me. The number of ways that you can interact with the computer would increase considerably. It'll be good to see the technology to exit the research phase and become integrated, affordable products. In the meantime, let's dream about uses. How many can you come up with?
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