Ten fingers on a multi-touch pad: nice
stacking windows in one dimension instead of two: dumb

Tags for this video have been changed from 'fluid, fluid dynamics, multi touch' to 'fluid, fluid dynamics, multi touch, mgmt' - edited by EndAll

As I seem to recall a patent can only be granted on an implementation method, not a concept, so they can't have a patent on multi-touch, only the way in which they've implemented it.

Actually, no they have no such patent have a read of this piece on engadget. They have a patent on CERTAIN MOVEMENTS and actions. NOT multitouch itself.

Multitouch has indeed been around for quite some time and IN USE in products (think military etc.) since before the iPhone.

Plus... Apple bought a company that was doing multi touch work, it's not like their own R&D came up with it.

They did the hard R&D yards and took the risk, it's only right that they should reap the rewards.

Oh come on...

It's not like Apple left the blue prints for this on the internet so the other companies didn't have to do the legwork. IS everyone here forgetting Microsoft Surface? Or that piece of shit PDA that shows you your fingers behind the screen?

Apple is NOT the first company to think of a multi-touch interface. They're just the first to market a product with it.

In the end, this only hurts the consumers. Other companies will have to pay Apple to use a multi-touch, and in turn, the end product will reflect that cost and hurt the consumer.

THIS is why I hate Apple. That, and their shit is ridiculously overpriced anyway.

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If it was Microsoft I'd be screaming bloody murder - but, you know - it's Apple, so it's insanely great. (at least I recognize my hypocrisy)

Apple innovated the hell out of the iPhone. In hindsight you look at it and think, "yes, of course- everyone should be making phones like this"

But Nokia, Motorola, Samsung et al couldn't even make a phone browser that didn't make you want to pull your hair out.

Now, in the sincerest form of flattery, all of the usual companies are making large touch screen, internet focused phones- and it seems natural that a multi-touch screen would be useful. But Apple got there first. They did the hard R&D yards and took the risk, it's only right that they should reap the rewards.

this is an old gui that they made when the multi touch displays were coming out.

Looks like there is multi-touch. In the second video (link above provided by EDD), he zooms out a photo with multi-touch. I didn't see anything about video either. It seems like it should be a more than capable enough device to playback video, but it's odd that they would show off music playback and not video (if they have video).

I like the qwerty keyboard the slides out. Screw "typing" on a touch screen.

It appears locked in to Sprint only at the moment. I'll have to ask around and see how good the Sprint service (read: reception) is in my area before I could even consider it as a purchase choice though. Nothing worse than going to a new provider only to find you have no reception inside your house.

No multi-touch, no video, no dice.

I'd say it's as much of an iPhone killer as the Zune was the iPod killer.

Personally, I think the two windmill posts were dupes. I was hoping the submitter would have had the grace to discard it, but he didn't. I tend to be nervous about hitting * discard unless it is exactly the same. Close to home, someone submitted this: http://www.videosift.com/video/Missile-Command-on-Multi-touch-Wall

which isn't identical code to this: http://www.videosift.com/video/Giant-Missle-Command-using-Multitouch

but it is the same event, with worse filming and no added value. It was different enough that I didn't feel right hitting discard, but honestly, it is the spirit of a dupe. I thought about a * discuss, but it seems so trivial in terms of discussion. I just hope it goes.

I think we should be liberal in our definition of dupes, because I think dupes dilute the sift more than the recently mentioned chunks of flour.

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Wow this, is very cool stuff. Best multi-touch I've seen to date.

Jeff Han founded a company ( http://www.perceptivepixel.com/ ) to market the multi-touch interface. Nothing is stolen, and nothing was ripped off.

This is the same as apple's first Multi Touch display, but you did not need some lousy puck, it tracked the movement of objects (or fingers) touching the surface. Apple now has a multi touch that does not need a camera, and is used on the new iPhone.

Cover Flow: glide through albums using multi-touch display and innovative new software that lets you control everything using only your fingers

It's the buzz phrase Apple is using.

2d is perfect for now, at least untill we will have useable 3d displays, the thing that they should focus on is that we still use just one "finger", multi touch is the key.