TouchSmarter: Touch Screen Gadgets

Trendhunter Magazine has compiled a list of the top interactive touch surfaces.

For those of you new to the world of multi-touch, a list like this gives you a pretty good recap of where this new technology is taking us.

One of our more popular multi-touch videos is of course Jeff Han’s demo.

Well, thanks to the good people at Autodesk, a high resolution DVD image is now available. It is fairly large (119MB), but if you wanted to show off the multi-touch goodness in a presentation or meeting, now you can.

Download the ISO here.

Apparently, Steve Jobs answers his email! Even if it was not really Steve, if the email depicted on MacRumors is valid, it looks like Apple is listening and adjusting its software in response to vocal feedback. The Calendar app on the iPod Touch may just be getting edit-ability after all, in a future update of course.

Wow, has it really been 100 days since Apple turned the world upside down with their iPhone? Here is a nice recap of what the device is like after these 100 days.

…Has got to be the web browsing experience with Safari. I had the opportunity to play around with a colleagues iPhone last week. The device is great, as has been echoed here and elsewhere repeatedly. What struck me the most was web browsing (admittedly over wifi). Not only was the software well designed, much better than I have seen on a mobile device before, but it was FAST. Compared to an HTC 6700 or P4000 (using the same wifi network), the render time on the iPhone is amazing. While the multi touch is a great UI tool, without a solid product/software behind it, the tool is not worth much. And that is where the Apple iPhone shines, it really does work superbly well.

First up, the video:

This is but one of several videos showing what the NUI-box can do. The NUI Group should be commended for their work on this project. It is great to see a device that is actually allowing multiple people to do multiple different things. The future looks bright.

This seems like yet another take on the multi touch table concept. This is one very un-compact looking compact table, but we will let it go…this time.

Guttervomit.com (?) has a really well done write up on the iPod Touch. In the end, it is similar to all the rest, the device is great, with some minor quirks.

This is just a strange bit of information. Neiman Marcus has a listing for the Interactive Media Wall from Perceptive Pixel. Not much information is given, only that the starting price is $100,000. It is part of their Christmas Book collection (appropriately part of the Fantasy section) and if you are interested, and have a few million spare pennies, buy it here.

The folks over at Gizmondo discuss and comment on the details surrounding a multi-touch enabled MacBook. It is their opinion that the oft rumored forthcoming PDA from Apple is not going to happen, as the entire PDA industry is shrinking daily as smartphones take over. Instead, it is suggested that there is a strong chance a new, thin and touchable MacBook will be Apple’s next big thing.

If this product takes the form of a convertible tablet, Microsoft’s Tablet PC product line will surely take a beating. We are in agreement with Gizmondo that a PDA seems questionable, especially with both the iPhone and iPod Touch containing many PDA abilities as it is.