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Bumping into Jeff Han, a man highly obsessed with touchscreens, was a highlight of my Nextfest fly through. He was showing off Perceptive Pixel's 16 foot long multitouch system and I got a chance to ask him about the UI, what he thinks of and the iPhone and other systems, and how much he must hate Minority Report jokes. (Including the one I happened to crack.) No one laughed. Couldn't help it, Jeff, sorry. [Perceptive Pixel via NextFest]
Jeff Han Talks Multitouch, iPhones, and Lame Minority Report Jokes
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great interview, thanks
jeff hans is the man. Apple, Microsoft, the Reactable, all of it was developed after this man and his team.
The idea of large multitouch screens or tables is a waste of time, but it is pretty cool in portable devices.
I love the comment at the end, "Kid's get it, my parents, grandparents, CEO's, Five Star Generals, people who's job it is to not know how to use a computer."
This concept definitely has a place in the future of computing. My mother will never learn how to work a computer in it's current form. My father who runs a successful ad agency, saw the computer revolution in that field and embraced it sparking my love for computers. Up until six months ago he had his secretary print out his emails for him. He would get this right off the bat.
This is the other end of the spectrum from Linux geeks who type away in the Terminal all day. It's a computer for artists.
Wow. Imagine running Kubuntu+beryl on this thing!
I could imagine Mac on one of those babies. It would own.
Also its amazing how the computer supports all of those pixels and still is as swift as it was when moving, shifting, through applications like it was doing some light work.
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