Saturday, October 08, 2005

ö Mac OS X mimiced in Flash Pretty nifty job emulating a basic, generic, surface, untweaked installation.Play around with the large icons along the bottom. If you don't know OS X, the red sphere in the upper left of each screen is the same as Windows upper-right X, Close. P.S. Also found this on digg. permanent link #     ^ TOP ^  what is this place?

ö TactaPad - The Tactile, Immersive, Two-Handed Input Device  Tactile feedback lets you feel what you're touching A Feel That Fits When you touch the TactaPad, the tactile response you feel is designed to fit the task. Pressing a button gives you a firm fall-through sensation that let's you know it was pressed. A disabled button is stiff and buzzes, to let you know that your press is being ignored. And when dragging you feel a soft springiness, with only a light touch needed to move across the surface. Richness of Expression The TactaPad senses not only the location of your touch, but also the force with which you're pressing, the area of contact between your finger and the surface, the distance that the surface has been depressed and its velocity - each updated one hundred times per second. This enables application designers to create powerful and expressive user interfaces.  For now, it seems to be a Drawing device, but that might change to data in general. It might look to be imprecise, but you're controlling a single pixel. No, you can't buy one yet. Quicktime movies of people working the pad in action. Definitely watch this one. Found through digg, with a lot of comments. permanent link #     ^ TOP ^  what is this place?