recent advancements in multi-touch computing has led the way to developing better interfaces for human-to-computer interaction, in which the interface essentially disappears. today, microsoft announced their surface product that will be released to commercial clients at the end of this year. of course the technology is awesome and begins to open the door to many advancements in how we interact with computers, don’t be fooled into believing that microsoft actually developed this technology (which is what they make it sound like in their press releases today). they may have built some of the software behind it, but they definitely didn’t develop the technology that allows such interaction to take place!
this topic follows much of the research i have been doing for a couple of years now, so i’m definitely excited to see it become more mainstream. here are some videos demonstrating how awesome this type of interaction truly is:
perceptive pixel (some of the developers behind the technology)
ted talks: jeff han
jeff han again
popular mechanics: microsoft surface