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Found this on Mac Essentials today:

Multi-Touch Interaction Research
Bi-manual, multi-point, and multi-user interactions on a graphical interaction surface.

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/

/Markus.

LiquidAg wrote:Is this something that you're talking about, with pics of them using it for tablet-type computers?

http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/48/new-apple-patents/

Yes, I found it in the context of an article about Apple tablet-type computer.

/Markus.

United States Patent Application 20060026536 Methods and systems for processing touch inputs are disclosed. The invention in one respect includes reading data from a multipoint sensing device such as a multipoint touch screen where the data pertains to touch input with respect to the multipoint sens...

To promote the Apple rumor, Apple just introduced a multi-button mouse using "touch-sensitive technology" for the buttons. Have a look at Apple's web site. And with touch-sensitive technology concealed under the seamless top shell, you get the programability of a four-button mouse in a single-button...

ken gray wrote:BTW: if any rep from the new company is reading this, I'd settle for the 20 gig ipod

Nah, have that already. I would like them to give me the new 60G iPod with color display.

Interested in a silver DVORAK MacNTouch? Then dop me an email at markus@boeing-online.de. Photos of the keyboard are here http://www.boeing-online.de/pages/powerbook.html.

Cheers,
/Markus.

I did not check the patent application but the cited article does not mention FW-like technology. Apple should have a lot of technology applicaple for a tablet computer back from the Newton days.

Cheers,
/Markus.

I think even with opt-in it would be fairly easy to get access. I do not think that a process requiring email/image verification would drive away potential users.

Spam is a fact of live these days & we should deal with it.

Cheers,
/Markus.

Hi there, my name is Markus Böing. I have owned a Dvorak MacNtouch for almost a year now. Fits nicely into my old iBook (except for the ugly ribbon cable going over the ege). Have not yet decided what to do with it when I get my new PowerBook next week. It won't fit into it - too bad that Apple chan...