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umm...
and he got school credit for this?

yikes.

Wow, did that provided any information or examples of why multitouch is better?

I am waiting for the multi-touch "shoe-tying video".

Seriously. I figure that $10,000 worth of cutting edge technology might save me some time in the morning when I'm putting my shoes on. I just hope that they get the machinery down to small size before releasing it... my multi-touch back scratcher machine weighs like 200 lbs. It's so bad that I have actually had to resort to the direct interface: I sort of reach around and use my finger to scratch the itchy part of my back. It's a bit complicated to describe...

Anyway I am going to publish a DIY on the manual back-scratching technique, and hopefully you'll see it here in the blog under 'cutting edge' manual-touch back scratching technology.

Oh come on... this wasn't a product, it was a demonstration of using a multi-touch interface to create a non-abstract, real-world tool metaphor. The fact it was a pizza cutter is beside the point; it was goofy, but that goofiness appears deliberate. The second example -- the laced strips of paper -- was better.

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