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Virtual Graffiti Walls

July 20, 2009 – 10:01 PM

Early last year, I posted here about Graffiti Research Lab and their work in creating a methodology for virtually tagging buildings using a green laser, a powerful projector, and some really cool software that they developed and then released as open source. That methodology is equally applicable to smaller scale rear projection systems that can be [...]

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Cannes Lions TouchWall

June 29, 2009 – 10:13 AM

One of the advertising industry’s oldest and most prestigious events is the Cannes Lions, a trade show and awards show ending this weekend in the south of France. There’s always lots going on at Cannes, even this year when the economy is on the ropes, attendance is down, and the lavish partying for which Cannes [...]

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Perceptive Pixel Multitouch

March 28, 2009 – 3:27 AM

This month we’ve been posting a lot about multitouch table technologies and providers. No discussion of multitouch computing would really be complete without mentioning the work of Jeff Han. A computer science professor at NYU, Han has been a leading proponent of multitouch computing for years. Back in February 2006, he gave a groundbreaking demo [...]

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GestureTek 130 inch touch wall

January 5, 2008 – 12:44 PM

The public was made aware of multi-touch screens from Steve Jobs and the iPhone but as with most Apple “innovations” the technology is not exclusive to one company. Touch interfaces started with ATM’s (the machines that dispense cash) in the 1980s but have continued to become a more reliable and common interface, encompassing larger surfaces [...]

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