Your wrong - there has been vids with music-making blocks before:
Reactable #1 - synthesizer with virtual interface (expired)
Reactable #2 - synthesizer with virtual interface (expired)
Reactable #3 - Improvisation Demo (published)
And a different device: The Tangible Sequencer (published)

In reply to your comment:
“there have been videos of blue touch screens and the suh, but not one that made music with blocks!

In reply to your comment:
“Sorry: but I think these are dupes, either Mlx or PlastiqueMonkey posted them a couple of months ago. I'll trawl through my votes / their posts to confirm.””

there have been videos of blue touch screens and the suh, but not one that made music with blocks!

In reply to your comment:
“Sorry: but I think these are dupes, either Mlx or PlastiqueMonkey posted them a couple of months ago. I'll trawl through my votes / their posts to confirm.”

Am still out on this console. I just bought the Nintendo DS and seeing how Nintendo implemented the usage of the stylus and touch screen shows promise in how they will handle the implementation of the nunchuck and motion sensor with the Wii.

But the thing is all the titles shown so far are really gimmicking and based around mini-games, like the Wii Sports + Rayman Raving Rabbids and olthers.

The only real titles to look forward to is Super Mario Galaxy, Red Steel and Zelda Twilight Princess. Other titles are multi platform titles. Am still wating to see the killer app of Wii, something on the level of Halo or Final Fantasy.

I say they should develop Paper Mario Wii.

This is not a touch screen. You can see that the guy's arm triggers the 'ray'ing effect when he's placing the glass and not touching the screen. It uses projection technology to detect when/where some object passes over it.

The lag that you see behind people 'touching' the surface and the effect moving is caused by the fact that the computer has to sense where the 'touch' is by processing reams of video. If it were a touch screen, the lag would be much less.

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