Here’s one student that takes the “Science Fair” to the next level. Bridger Maxwell, a high school student at Utah County Academy of Sciences (UCAS) decided to create a multi-touch table for his Science Fair entry–kinda like an iPhone screen, and Microsoft Surface on a budget.
The multi-touch experience allows for object movement, rotation, growing and shrinking, and even multi-hand, multi-person use. Inspired by movies like Minority Report, Maxwell leverages Apple OS X, code developed during Google Summer of Code called Open Touch, and his own code. The table, made from plexiglass and a dissembled Acer monitor, uses infrared light emitting diodes and an IR camera to detect and transmit fingertip motions as inputs.
Maxwell also expects to experience a future where multi-touch technology becomes a standard way to interact with applications, particularly for graphic manipulation and even gaming. Maxwell submitted his code back to the community at code.google.com/p/corkboard/ and has received coverage on Ars Technica and a local NBC news story.
Maxwell also expects to experience a future where multi-touch technology becomes a standard way to interact with applications, particularly for graphic manipulation and even gaming. While ...
Ripping DVDs, transferring video from cameras, or converting downloaded videos from various sources for Apple products can be a difficult and time consuming process. Now with a software update for the Turbo.264 hardware-based video encoder from Elgato Systems, Macintosh users now have a definitive best and fastest way ...
PodTech’s Jason Lopez and Kevin Edwards roamed the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show floor where it seems Apple rules–in certain product categories–without even being there. In this 18 minute podcast Kevin and Jason check out a few of the many products made for iPods/iPhones and talk about Apple at CES ...
Gordon Moore’s Law will remain in effect for the foreseeable future. Intel Corporation’s new 45nm Penryn microprocessor relies on a new recipe that combines the element Hafnium and metal gate technology to increase performance and significantly reduce eco-unfriendly, wasteful electricity leaks.
AtTask’s VP of Sales, Abraham Knell, shows off the @task Project and Portfolio Management solution. The application has a simple UI that is easy to learn and use. Tabs and drop-down menus in headers give the web-based offering a rich, desktop client-like experience without the ...
Almost overshadowed by the reaction to Apple’s iPhone price cuts and its new iPods was the news that Apple and Starbucks reached a deal where anyone will be able to use iTunes at Starbucks without having to pay Wifi fees. This will work with Macs, PCs and the WiFi equipped ...
On Wednesday, September 5, Steve Jobs announced several new iPods and made the stunning announcement that he was lowering the price of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399. This may be good news for potential iPhone buyers but it was a punch in the stomach for some early adopters ...
OpenMoko is an interesting project that is an open linux-based mobile communications platform. Primarily an open source operating system and applicatiion environment, when combined with a hardware device by FIC, it quickly feels like an open threat to the Apple iPhone. While at Linuxworld, I spoke ...
Sam Levin and Kevin Edwards do a first look at new iPhone accessories and discuss which iPod accessories you may already have that work with the iPhone.
Included are products from:
Griffin Technology
DLO
Incase
SpeckProducts
Case-mate
RadTech
SendStation
Belkin
Shot and edited by ...
Just a week after the debut of the iPhone, about 300 developers gathered at the Adobe offices in San Francisco this weekend for a three-day developers camp/hackathon. The goal was to hack together applications for the iPhone. Apple doesn’t allow developers to write applications for the phone itself, so ...
Coté speaks with Dave “KirinDave” Fayram about a week of iPhone use. As Dave is a developer (at PowerSet) and an Apple fanboy, in addition to talking about the pure user experience, he gives us a developers’ perspective and wish-list. We talk about using the maps features, Dave’s ...
With the iPhone hitting the stores this past weekend, the post-PC on-demand era entered into warp speed - marked by an appropriately frenzied atmosphere in front of Apple’s Palo Alto store. Bill Atkinson, designer of the hypercard (and a member of the Apple Macintosh development team), was even amongst ...
At the final countdown, PodTech’s AppleVoices is at the Palo Alto Apple Store to witness the unveiling, or at least the door opening , on the iPhone and it’s public.
Jeremiah Owyang does his signature walkthrough through the Palo Alto Apple Store customers waiting patiently for the iPhone to go on sale in a few hours. Over 100 people showed up, camped out, in anticipation for this revolutionary communication device.
One more day to iDay, and on this podcast, PodTech’s AppleVoices returns to the Palo Alto Apple Store to cover iPhone mania. Finally, some folks like Robert Scoble and others line up for a piece of Apple pie.
Don’t want to wait in line for an Apple iPhone? One option is to pay someone to wait in those massive lines for you. In day two of our countdown of the iPhone’s release, PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with one person willing to give up his spot in ...
The countdown begins to iDay, and PodTech’s AppleVoices goes to the Palo Alto Apple Store to check the iPhone hysteria on the street.
In the second part of the Apple WWDC 2007 Steve Jobs keynote, we get more demos of Leopard (OS X 10.5), including Core Animation, BootCamp, Time Machine and iChat, as well as showing Safari for Windows, and apps for the iPhone.
The Apple WWDC 2007 keynote with Steve Jobs is this Monday, June 11 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Be sure to come to PodTech where, as like last year, you can start listening to the Apple WWDC Steve Jobs Keynote podcast before Steve Jobs finishes speaking. The ...
Apple’s iPhone has created quite a bit of hype in India since Steve Jobs unveiled it in January of this year. (India’s mobile phone market is growing by a few million subscribers every month.) I caught up with two techies — Thiyagarajan (Rajan) and Rajiv, who have their fingers on ...
Roxio, the company known for it’s CD and DVD burning software, has introduced a home video transcoding product called Crunch. I recently caught up with Vito Salvaggio, VP of product management for Roxio’s Mac products division, at the House of Shields in San Francisco. Vito shows how me ...
While much has been written about Apple’s iPhone, this interview provides a review by a professional market research analyst. Avi Greengrat specializes in the mobile telephone market for Current Analysis. He previously worked for Jupiter Research and, prior to that, Intel.
Remember the “teleputer”? That’s the device that George Gilder predicted years ago. Now that we’ve had a look at Apple’s forthcoming iPhone, it looks like Gilder’s vision may come true. What will the combination of an iPhone and the planned Apple TV mean for consumers? Find out, with ...
SAN FRANCISCO, January 20, 2007 (PodTech News) — It’s been a quiet week compared to the double whammy earlier this month that saw dueling trade shows — Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and MacWorld in San Francisco. MacWorld, which saw Apple’s formal introduction of its iPhone, stole a lot ...
Twelve b-i-l-l-i-o-n dollars in cash and more coming in with a billion in profit for the last quarter…. With these record earnings, what will Steve Jobs decide to do with all that crazy iPod money? Apple Voices’ Michael Klinger and Kevin Edwards discuss potential ways Apple could spend the ...
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