Multi-touch interface (from Adobe TED)

Presentation by Jeff Han of a futuristic multi-touch interface during the Adobe sponsored TED2006. Jeff Han is a research scientist for NYU's Media Research Lab, and the inventor of an "interface-free" touch-driven computer screen. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 09:32)

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[si577]

Someone below me had a good point. It's hilarious that we think the ipad is so amazing and revolutionary when this was five years ago. We havnt made much progress.

[zc456]

Jeff Han mentions multi-touch is nothing new, Steve Jobs said they invented multi-touch. Big, big difference.

[jjmarz1001]

Apple should patent this...

[jazz12103]

uh, no no. they stole it THEN paid royalties. big difference.

[softdev1]

Apple paid $1 million worth of shares in their company for Xerox's technology. How much would that be worth today? $600 million? @jhbaker2600 quit talking out of your ass about things you don't know about! Apple never stole the GUI from PARC. They bought it.

[Tirumal Rao]

DIY multi touch. Build your own prototype at goo(dot)gl/uxenY

[n3rdopolis]

Apple lawyers :)

[Daniel Schuler]

I'm kidding... using 'my' logic, Apple should've sued Johnson retroactively. It's interesting that capacitive touch technology goes back that far though.

[HaraldTheTalker]

Historians consider the first touch screen to be a capacitive touch screen invented by E.A. Johnson at the Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern, UK, in 1965.

This is long before Apple exsisted. Using your logic E.A. Johnson should sue apple for infringing on making a touch screen. This unfair Apple lawsuit win against Samsung is another reason to hate apples worthless guts!!

Apple needs to go piss off, stop being so greedy, and let everyone have their piece of the pie.

[Daniel Schuler]

This shows the patented pinch-to-zoom feature that Apple owns, since they clearly invented it in the iPhone, released one year later in 2007. Apple now needs to sue Adobe for pre-infringing on their patent.

[kosiara87]

Yeah... and some "smart" people think that Apple invented something... they just stole a bunch of ideas and started sueing others....