"Interface-Free" Touch Screen at TED

Down8 writes, "Jeff Han, an NYU researcher, has recently shown off his 'interface free' touch screen technology at the TEDTalks in Monterey. Some sweet innovation that I hope makes it to the mainstream soon." The photo manipulation interface is reminiscent of "Minority Report."

Re:The Pentagon already bought this,,,

[prof_peabody]

Here's the links

http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldie rtech_TouchTable,,00.html [military.com]
http://www.esri.com/library/fliers/pdfs/cs-northro p-grumman.pdf [esri.com]

Re:Old story, and no such thing as 'no interface'

[Tremor (APi)]

Indeed. Reference: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=multi+touch [google.com]

Re:Old story, and no such thing as 'no interface'

[catwh0re]

I've seen various incarnations of this video all through the year. In particular it's often referenced when speaking about Apple computer's gestural patent applications which detail very similar techniques as shown in this video.

In particular we can see the zooming (into maps, etc) gestures in the patent imagery. http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/48/new-apple-patents/ [hrmpf.com] Although these ideas are not too-new, the related apple patents date as far back as Jan 2005 (through to Oct 06)

Re:Interface-free?

[ebassi]

GNOME did invert some years ago the order of the buttons on right-to-left languages, following the example of the Apple UI, and uses verbs instead of the infamous YNC combo; so, no: "linux" does not do like windows.

and just to be overly zealous: windows vista added message boxes with verbs+descriptions, so neither does newer releases of windows do like the old times (finally).