View Full Version : New iMac Touchscreens today
Mark L. Pederson
08-07-2007, 08:32 AM
new iMac with touchscreen today??
Jason Murphy
08-07-2007, 09:08 AM
And here I thought it had been announced already...
Tease. :)
Brook Willard
08-07-2007, 10:26 AM
Spend the next 5 minutes with your hands held out, touching your screen. Pretend like you're actually working with your hands.
Tired yet? That's why there weren't touch-screen iMacs introduced today.
Mark L. Pederson
08-07-2007, 10:36 AM
Spend the next 5 minutes with your hands held out, touching your screen. Pretend like you're actually working with your hands.
Tired yet? That's why there weren't touch-screen iMacs introduced today.
well ... there's always TROLLTOUCH - for those of us who like to play with our hands ...
http://www.trolltouch.com/
PaulClements
08-07-2007, 02:37 PM
Spend the next 5 minutes with your hands held out, touching your screen. Pretend like you're actually working with your hands.
Tired yet? That's why there weren't touch-screen iMacs introduced today.
True, but for those who spend day in day out sat infront of a computer forced exercise might not be such a bad idea! :)
Joe Carney
08-07-2007, 06:40 PM
Check out the ulitimate coffee table
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
After watching the videos, click on origins to get the history.
It's coming from MS in the near future.
Brook Willard
08-07-2007, 07:49 PM
Ah, yes, the Big-Ass Table (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_czPDtECjlU).
Casey Green
08-07-2007, 09:31 PM
Check out the ulitimate coffee table
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
After watching the videos, click on origins to get the history.
It's coming from MS in the near future.
yep, very cool. I'm a "right tool for the job" guy at this stage of the game (own both mac/pc). And I like what both MS and Apple are doing with touch technology.
Here is a new offering from Estari, called the DC15, which sports dual multi-touch touch screens... the windows based OS comes with special software which allows one of the screens to emulate a keyboard and mouse...
Very pricey right now, but possibly the laptop style of the future...
www.dualscreen.com/dc15m.cfm
http://www.reduser.net/forum/uploaded/971_1186547187.jpg
Joe Carney
08-07-2007, 09:36 PM
Ah, yes, the Big-Ass Table (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_czPDtECjlU).
If surface was from Apple, all the alcolytes would be swooning.
Brook Willard
08-07-2007, 10:44 PM
If surface was from Apple, all the alcolytes would be swooning.
Perhaps... but I don't see Apple taking a leap of faith to develop a "table" market in an era of shrinking devices. Apple tends to aim at people.
Stephen Gentle
08-07-2007, 11:04 PM
Check out the ulitimate coffee table
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
After watching the videos, click on origins to get the history.
It's coming from MS in the near future.
This technology's been around for ages, and it's not that hard to do with a webcam and a projector...
There was something on the Make blog (http://makezine.com/blog/) about making one (diy) - I'll try to dig it up.
Casey Green
08-08-2007, 12:16 AM
Perhaps... but I don't see Apple taking a leap of faith to develop a "table" market in an era of shrinking devices. Apple tends to aim at people.
From what I've read, Microsoft Surface is initially being designed to target specific applications that are more publicly/socially used rather than personally, such as information kiosks, project white boards, restaurant/club tables/walls, living room tables, and other areas where people gather in public places or as groups.
I agree that devices are shrinking, of course. But surfaces will not be limited to size or shape. So I think Microsoft's approach can be very successful in those markets... which are people, just a lot more of 'em in public places. ;)
Jeff Kilgroe
08-08-2007, 12:27 AM
I agree with Casey. And the surface concept video does a nice job of illustrating a lot of these potential uses. I think that the intimate coffee table setting was probably the wrong choice for the video though... They should have used the same basic concept to demonstrate many of those same features, but within the setting and context of collaborative development at a graphic arts firm or in a school library or a trendy cafe. A table-top product like Surface isn't going to find it's way into living room coffee tables at first. It's going to be the nifty cocktail tables at that new sports bar, the 30" inlaid panels in the conference room table at a large advertising agency or things like that. It will come to the home in time... I think it will happen quickly, as soon as prices become consumer-friendly. People are going to love the direct interaction.
Brook Willard
08-08-2007, 01:15 AM
From what I've read, Microsoft Surface is initially being designed to target specific applications that are more publicly/socially used rather than personally, such as information kiosks, project white boards, restaurant/club tables/walls, living room tables, and other areas where people gather in public places or as groups.
Exactly. That's what I meant when I said "Apple tends to aim at people." :bleh:
Casey Green
08-08-2007, 01:42 AM
very well, then...we all agree. :biggrin:
Joe Carney
08-08-2007, 07:59 AM
As I software developer, I'm excited at the tech behind it. MS's new SilverLight technology is going head to head with Adobe Flex.
The Netflix streaming video player is based on SilverLight AFAIK.
I guess PreCogs will be next, hehehe.