Anyone who has visited the National Museum of Australia in Canberra over the past six months may have come across a rather impressive exhibit telling the story of Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route, an important cultural part of Australian history. Why so impressive? It’s a 10-screen interactive multitouch exhibit.
The iOS 4.3 Gold Master has already been jailbroken, meaning you can do cool things like enable the four and five finger gesture support on your iPhone 4. Just follow these instructions and these, for multitouch.
This is a 10m long curved touchscreen, hacked together by the University of Groningen. Three computers handle the touch detection, one processes it all. It uses six cameras and 16 infrared emitters, plus two or three men to poke around awkwardly in front of it for your amusement.
Multitouch makes everything better, right? Well, maybe probably definitely not. Here’s a fellow demonstrating Apple’s new not-ready-for-the-public four-finger gestures on an iPhone. And he looks absolutely ridiculous.
We’ve discovered a little gem in the iOS 4.3 beta: Four-finger and five-finger multitouch gesture support for the iPad. Here’s how it looks in action.
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Hackers have wasted no time bending Kinect to their will, and this proof of concept video for a Minority Report-esque multitouch UI is probably the most exciting mod yet. Stretch to zoom, here we come!
Earlier this month, Motorola sued Apple for pretty much everything phone-related: MobileMe, the App Store, location based services, antenna design, and so forth. One thing Moto didn’t mention however, was multitouch. So guess what happened? Apple decided to sue Motorola right back, filing two patent infringement lawsuits that cover six patents regarding, you guessed it, multitouch.
