In the past year, the idea of multitouch interfaces has spread like wildfire. It started with conference demos of graduate student research projects showing amazing new opportunities in UI and application design when you aren't limited to an artificial pointer, and really hit the mainstream with the unveiling of the iPhone at this year's MacWorld Conference. You even saw a hint of the technology in Bill Gates' CES 2007 keynote speech, with the interactive kitchen countertop.
Well, this week, Microsoft is taking the wraps off of Project Milan, from the Surface Computing Team, and boy does some of this stuff look cool. Here are just a few good links on this new tech:
Click the link below to go to Microsoft's official website for Surface Computing. It's pretty cool stuff. I can't wait until these appear on the consumer market!