Multi-Touch Prior Art
by Tim Lee on January 11, 2007
Mike Masnick has some good comments on the iPhone. Most interestingly, he points out that many of the technologies have been demonstrated before. Here is a really cool video demonstrating multi-touch interfaces from last February. The only thing it’s missing is Steve’s legendary Reality Distortion Field.
Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.
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