Han Gestures
At the last TED conference (February last year) Jeff Han stole the show with a dramatic demonstration of multitouch technology(based on the physical property of light interacting with a glass surface called "frustrated total internal reflection"). Now, he's back with a new company, Perceptive Pixel, and a new demo of his amazing interface.
If you're having trouble with video at the right, try this link.
The Apple iPhone also uses multitouch, but it seems to have closer genetic ties to the Synaptics version of multitouch than Han's ideas (which seems to be coming to a LG phone - the KE850 Prada - near you soon.
I'm more excited about what Han is doing because it really allows users to physically engage with interface and data in a way that the limited size of the iPhone does not. That doesn't mean Apple won't do amazing things with the multitouch interface - there's already rumours of a Mac tablet in 2008 and a touchscreen video ipod before that.
Han seems to be thinking big in a couple of ways, judging from a recent Fast Company interview. Han wants his technology in the hands of the military, the government and at the front of classrooms, an idea I love. He also, I think, has a strong entrepreneurial leaning. Sounds like he was courted by Apple and turned them down, which suggests he has his own ideas for where he wants to take his invention, and its much bigger than a pocket-sized device.
If you're having trouble with video at the right, try this link.
The Apple iPhone also uses multitouch, but it seems to have closer genetic ties to the Synaptics version of multitouch than Han's ideas (which seems to be coming to a LG phone - the KE850 Prada - near you soon.
I'm more excited about what Han is doing because it really allows users to physically engage with interface and data in a way that the limited size of the iPhone does not. That doesn't mean Apple won't do amazing things with the multitouch interface - there's already rumours of a Mac tablet in 2008 and a touchscreen video ipod before that.
Han seems to be thinking big in a couple of ways, judging from a recent Fast Company interview. Han wants his technology in the hands of the military, the government and at the front of classrooms, an idea I love. He also, I think, has a strong entrepreneurial leaning. Sounds like he was courted by Apple and turned them down, which suggests he has his own ideas for where he wants to take his invention, and its much bigger than a pocket-sized device.
