Minority Report Realization!

I guess on some point most of us already saw the movie Minority Report right? One of my favorite scene in the film was when Tom Cruise (My uncle )] operated a certain wide screen multi touch technology which basically can sort the objects on the screen and interact with it in real time. Well tell me that wasn’t fascinating ei? Now that technology was finally been realized by the hands of the brilliant people at New York University. Jeff Han a brilliant thinker devoted his time along with his colleagues in creating a fully functional MULTI-TOUCH INTERFACE application.

Man! The innovation gave me severe goosebumps thinking that the future is much more closer than we think it would be in terms of Hans’ developed technology. As expected the scent was not that faint to begin with so the big dog sniffed it out and took the opportunity. Microsoft developed it’s own version by using cameras to sense objects, hand gestures and touch and released it on the market which is now called “Microsoft Surface”.

Unlike Hans’ who uses the original concept of a multi touch screen by using the LED inside the screen to sense the gestures it’s called FTIR (Frustrated Total Internal Reflection). To know more check it out HERE . People commented that this would herald the end of the point and click mouse which I totally agree.

“Jeff Han’s intuitive “interface-free” computer displays — controlled by the touch of fingertips — will change forever the way you think about computers. At TED 2006, the audience whistled, clapped and gasped audibly as Han demoed (for the first time publicly) his prototype drafting table-cum-touch display, developed at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The demo included a virtual lightbox, where he moved photos by fingertip — as if they were paper on a desk — flicking them across the screen and zooming in and out by pinching two fingers together, as well as a Google Earth-like map that he tilted and flew over with simple moves.

When the demo hit the web, bloggers and YouTubers made him a bit of a megastar. (His video has been watched more than 600,000 times on YouTube alone; “Amazing,” “Incredible” and “Freaking awesome” are the typical responses there. Also: “When can I buy one?”) After this legendary demo, Han launched a startup called Perceptive Pixel — and when he came back to TED2007, he and his team brought an entire interactive wall, where TEDsters lined up to play virtual guitars.”

“Working all but alone from his hardware-strewn office, Jeff Han is about to change the face of computing. Not even the big boys are likely to catch him.”

—Fast Company

Prepare to be mesmerized by this fascinatig break through.
Muti-Touch Interface Technology

To check out Microsoft’s Version
SURFACE

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