Not your iPhone's Multi-touch

There is an article over at Fast Company about Jeff Han, the guy responsible for the Multitouch demo that spread via YouTube a couple of months ago. When I saw that video I was mesmerized. Everything looked so natural. There was no need for explanation, every gesture once seen seemed like the obvious thing to do. It's one of those brilliant inventions that once seen seems like it should always have been around. Well, the video attached to the Fast Company article is even more hypnotizing. Just beautiful.

And I guess the best thing is that this tech is going to hit the market, considering that half the interactions of the iPhone appear to be based on this research. Curious whether Han helped Apple or Apple engineers were inspired at TED. The article mentions PIXAR as an interested party, but not Apple. I do have to give Apple the nod for idea of taking multitouch to the phone. Seeing the multitouch video, I never even considered going to a smaller screen (and neither has Han if the new video is any indication). But it's perfect for the small screen, since that input device of all is the one that needs to be more flexible to what people want to do, and anticipate their input, since there isn't all that much room to get interaction from.

Any way you look at it, I wish Han's company Perceptive Pixel all the luch and funding to make multitouch the way we interact with computers in the future.