Alejandro, Cees,
Thanks for suggestions. I have been long postponing to get a tablet, and the multitouch screen is very interesting. But I have to say I came to conclusion that any device that does not give 3 dimensional feedback, such as "grow a handle" (literally) when I want to grab it, or give a physical 3D touch feel (sort of vr gloves) is probably not the right direction. I want to "grab" things, not "touch" them on a flat background. But I realize that may be a long wait, and good touch-type devices is a good solution. (I think even the first writing tools were 3 dimensional in a way - making grooves in clay as opposed to writing on flat papyrus)
Bret mentioned that next generation of the laptop may have a touch screen which will be great.
Milan On 2007 April 30 08:22, Alejandro F. Reimondo wrote:
Hi,
One thing I realized trying to build a quick presentation, is that we really need a different interface then the mouse pad or mouse.
One alternative is to make a device by yourself. We are working on self made devices to do multitouch interaction. There is some pages on my work at http://www.aleReimondo.com.ar/MultiTouch most of the explanations are in spanish in my workspace but videos and photos on how to build a device yourself can be understood... There is also a forum for people involved in doit-yourself=doNotWait multi touch devices and projects at http://nuigroup.com/forums/
hope this can help to put your hands on it (and not only one finger or a pencil). cheers, Ale.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cees de Groot" cdegroot@gmail.com To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 7:22 AM Subject: Re: Held an OLPC laptop today!
On 4/30/07, Milan Zimmermann milan.zimmermann@sympatico.ca wrote:
One thing I realized trying to build a quick presentation, is that we really need a different interface then the mouse pad or mouse.
FYI - I'm using a Wacom tablet these days and I love it :). But, not a portable device... :(
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