While everyone’s all amazed (or not) by Microsoft’s new piece of furniture, some may forget that Macworld (or more specifically, yours truly) got a preview of this really slick technology back at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference way back in March 2006.
I penned a blog entry on Mr. Han’s fun little table, and for good measure, even had him on the podcast.
Now again, I’m not really sure how this translates into a workable product, other than “ooo shiny!”
So Microsoft, the floor’s yours.
iPhone has multitouch technology. iPhone runs OS X. Thus, expect OS X to have multitouch built in, awaiting for some new -affordable-as-ever iMac with touchscreen.
Yes, I also saw the video of Jeff Han in the February 2006 TED conference. There, he showed the multitouch design. I hardly think that MS itself claims to have invented the technology, but they are making use of it. And they think a good use of it. I don't see any fruit of having this, either at home with that price or with that form factor. Leave it to Apple to make better use with that technology.