Multi-modal interaction is all about HMI. My employer company starts developing holographic displays - that is exciting, isn't it!
Meanwhile, in the consumer market, we at last see Microsoft's secret concept weapon, product "Surface". The key thing for Surface is of course "multi-touch", which has been becoming the buzz words, as enters the commercialization phase of the technology, swiftly.
Here is the another similar conceptual multi-touch product and coolest demo by Jeff Han and Phil Davidson working together (yes, with four hands!!!) on their "Minority Report" style computer.
http://www.fastcompany.com/video/player.html [Note: you might spot the familar Linux Gnome panels, no prize given though.] (From: Fast Company Issue 112, February 2007, Adam L. Penenberg: Until now, the touch screen has been limited to the uninspiring sort found at an ATM or an airport ticket kiosk--basically screens with electronic buttons that recognize one finger at a time. Han's touch display, by contrast, redefines the way commands are given to a computer: It uses both movement and pressure--from multiple inputs, whether 2 fingers or 20--to convey information to the silicon brain under the display. Already, industries and companies as diverse as defense contractor Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), CBS (NYSE:CBS) News, Pixar (NYSE:DIS), and unnameable government intelligence agencies have approached Han to get hold of his invention.)
Oh, if you recall, iPhone is multi-touch too, during the introduction of iPhone at Mac World Expo, 2007, Steven Jobs joked "Here's something Microsoft will never be able to rip off." :) "Surface" (certainly, nothing from fakesteve would be positive towards Microsoft's latest product), is said to be introduced at The Wall Street Journal's D Conference, the annual head-knocking session for technology and media executives, or some call it with rather a beautiful title, Jobs & Gates, the Biggest Reunion Since Simon & Garfunkel
Their last joint appearance, is at Macworld Boston 1997, so-called "The Microsoft Deal", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxOp5mBY9IY
"They both still have the fire. They're not just going off and playing golf somewhere," Deutschman [author of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs] said. "These are guys that like being behind big change. It's what drives them.", taken from http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_6018366
The next disruptive technologies, please?
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May 31 2007, 12:23 AM
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blackinkbottle