Apple announced the release of the Ipod Touch. This new version of the Ipod supports videos, photos, music and websites in 8GB and 16GB models starting at 299 USD.
4 September, Harry van der Veen
When I started getting into multi-touch I had this idea that it would be cool to have some kind of laptop with 2 touch surfaces, so basically with no physical keyboard at all. Even though the concept might be fun and interesting for some applications, it would be one hell of a task to write a...
31 August, Harry van der Veen
My friend, co researcher and also co-founder of the NUI Group Pawel "Solydzajs" Solyga presented his OpenTouch concept at Google in Mountview USA for the Google Summer of Code 2007.
27 August, Harry van der Veen
Today I held my final thesis presentation, about my multi-touch graduation project in Sweden, at the NHL facility in Leeuwarden (Holland). During my graduation project my focus was project management and interaction design.
18 August, Harry van der Veen
Chris Moore one of the co-founders of the NUI Group, released a video of his TouchAPI in Flash + Touchlib.
13 August, Harry van der Veen
Microsoft Surface at Siggraph 2007, San Diego, CA, USA.
8 August, Harry van der Veen
While researching gestures, I came across the following. Even though certain gestures for specific actions don’t make a lot of sense to me at all, it’s nice to see we get a step closer to a more natural ubiquitous computing environment. They state that a user can learn the gestures in 5 minutes. I...
3 August, Harry van der Veen
Yesterday I came across several websites posting about an Apple patent regarding a multi-touch gesture dictionary.
31 July, Harry van der Veen
Because of the fact that silicone rubber, rosco projection screen and acrylic are very static I wanted to point out that you shouldn't saw or cut acrylic or polycarbonate in the same room where you store the rosco or the silicone rubber. The tiny acrylic particles stick to everywhere, so you will...