The Software Abstractions Blog

Great Videos: Jeff Han's Multi-touch Sensing Display

Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Over the past few years, he has been focusing on developing technology for "multi-touch sensing" and has come up with the a radical new user interface, the multi-touch display.

A demo of this interface is shown here. This video is already extremely popular, so you may already have seen this. If you have not, I highly recommend it - this is truly the future of User Interface.

Here is another video that demonstrates the Microsoft touchscreen coffee table, based on the same technology.

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Great Videos: Sir Ken Robinson on Creativity and Education

I'm introducing a new feature on this blog: Great Videos. There are some truly great videos that have caught on virally within the blogosphere - videos that are inspiring, creative, original - that I would like to share with readers. In general, I'm going to stay within the themes of technology, innovation and the future, but some of them may be slightly off-topic for this blog.

Caveat: Since each of these is a popular video, you may have already seen it and can just skip ahead; but for everyone else, I'm pretty sure it will be worth their time to watch. 

I'm leading off with the following video:

Sir Ken Robinson, speaking at the TED Conference (via Presentation Zen ):

Topic:           Creativity and Education
Duration:      20:02
Description: This is not a particularly interesting topic by itself, but Sir Ken is a great speaker and he makes it come alive. This video of interest to anyone who cares about how we educate our children and nourish their creativity.

Here's the original link.

If anyone has any other great videos to share, please let me know in the comments or via email.

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