{"id":452,"date":"2006-02-13T16:30:50","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T00:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/13\/multi-touch-interaction-experiment-gone-mad\/"},"modified":"2006-02-14T10:21:56","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T18:21:56","slug":"multi-touch-interaction-experiment-gone-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/13\/multi-touch-interaction-experiment-gone-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-Touch Interaction Experiment Gone Mad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all have seen Tom Cruise in that futuristic science-ficition thriller set in the not-too-distant future, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=poweratom-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB00005JL78%2Fqid%3D1139876583%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_1%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8%26v%3Dglance%26n%3D130\">Minority Report<\/a>&#8220;. Remember the scene where he goes through hundreds of video archives looking for that segment of evidence to arrest someone of a &#8220;pre-crime&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I guess maybe that&#8217;s not too science-fiction after all&#8230; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xvyjdWEHJJk\" target=\"_blank\">clip shown below<\/a> demonstrates what&#8217;s called a &#8220;Multi-Touch Interaction&#8221; technology for touch screens. Most touch screens today can only accept one user input at a time. But this new technology recognizes and is able to interpret multiple user inputs at any given time.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xvyjdWEHJJk\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Apple has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macsimumnews.com\/index.php\/archive\/apple_patents_visual_expander\/\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a> applied for a patent that covers similar technology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have seen Tom Cruise in that futuristic science-ficition thriller set in the not-too-distant future, &#8220;Minority Report&#8220;. Remember the scene where he goes through hundreds of video archives looking for that segment of evidence to arrest someone of a &#8220;pre-crime&#8221;? Well, I guess maybe that&#8217;s not too science-fiction after all&#8230; The clip shown below &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/13\/multi-touch-interaction-experiment-gone-mad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Multi-Touch Interaction Experiment Gone Mad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-geek-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-7i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}