[ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?

[Alan Pope]

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 13:16 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
> What do you think?
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
> 

The result of a few years and a few million USD spent by the largest
software company on the planet, and comparable with efforts done by
individuals within the community.

Jeff Hans work on multitouch displays and UIs is awesome and pre-dates
the Microsoft stuff by some margin.

http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKh1Rv0PlOQ

Mirco Mullers lovely lowfat UI concepts would probably have also turned
out similar results as the Microsoft stuff if he had backing and time.

http://macslow.thepimp.net/?page_id=18
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lowfat+linux&search=Search

Pompeu Fabra Unis mesmerising "reactable".

http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc

Cheers,
Al.
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