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I sure hope it's true. The bad news, of course, is that the touchscreens will ONLY work with OS X 10.5, and that a 20" display will cost US$2999. :-)

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Doesn't this sound a bit like the "cell-phone interference" problems some users have reported? Static or external interference would be my first guess, particularly if the board passes diagnostics.

Okay from Mozilla 1.7.13 on OS X 10.3.9...

I’ll admit that I am curious to know if my “through the LCD” demo had anything to do with the eventual design of the iPhone multi-touch screen. And no, I’m not trying to say I deserve any money for the idea, even if I was actually the first to come up with it. Someone at Fingerworks may have alread...

The good news: now we can get a multitouch input device.

The better news: it combines multitouch with a touch screen.

The bad news: it's a 3.5-inch screen.

The worse news: it comes bundled with an iPod and cell phone.

Sigh...

I just received a copy of the same form letter ivanw got. Oh, well.

Ugh, same thing here -- just received the tracking number, and the status page says the shipped weight is 0.20Lb. Sigh. Oh, well -- every once in a while, a deal like this DOES work out. Like the lottery ads used to say, "you gotta play to win"... and at least, unlike the lottery, I'm not losing my ...

Woohoo! Thanks for the heads-up! I decided to be generous and only buy one, particularly since the shipping doubles if you buy two. :?

I sure hope that it's a working Mini (as shown in three of the pictures), and not a stylus (as shown in the fourth)!

Wow. It was hard enough justifying the $350 to buy one of these new; now, I have to justify turning down $850 to keep it...?

For that matter, I wonder how many units FingerWorks actually shipped during their life as a company. More than a thousand? Probably, especially if you count iGesture pads. More than ten thousand? I'm not so sure.

What would be interesting would be if two people were holding each other, if they could use one finger from one hand each and it would act as two fingers on one hand. Have to try that out, could lead to interesting experiments in collaboration. Especially since the two (or more) people would necess...

I find my touchstream periodically locks up the usb ports so that everything stops working. If I unplug the touchstream, usb is freed up and works normally. I then replug the touchstream and it works fine also until it decides to lock up the usb again. Anyone know what causes this and if there's a ...

I get the feeling that ten or twenty years from now, when gestural recognition is finally widespread and reasonably usable, people will look back on the TouchStream much the same way people look back on Doug Engelbart's 1968 NLS demo . "How was that even possible with the technology of the time? Why...

Good... LORD! I knew I was spoiled with my TiBook, but I didn't know keyboard removal was THAT bad for the new machines! But now I've got a MacBook, with exactly zero chance of replacing the keyboard, even if I came into posession of a MacNTouch. :-/ Maybe somebody will come up with a hack to get be...

I came in Monday, and discovered that I couldn't log on to a couple of the systems here. Went to our sysadmin, tried it from her machine, and it worked fine. NOW what? Could I be mistyping my password -- again and again and again ? Finally got fed up and typed my password into a text editor, and dis...

He's not dead yet! I seem to recall that the lead time on patent processing can be several years, so I'm not sure how significant this really is. I wonder if it'll be possible to track assignment of this patent -- since FingerWorks doesn't exactly exist any more ("Address unknown"?), will it be assi...

Wow, thenn, this is a find. congrats and hoorahs all around. On the spare chip end of things, I have received a response from one of the companies, the one that had 6 chips. They are priced at $6 each. Probably a rip off, if that was the real price the TS boards would have cost twice as much. They'...

Wow, looks like I missed some good stuff in the past couple of months... * Xilinx FPGA Chips: According to the mystery manufacturer who used to do repairs, one of the two Xilinx FPGA chips located on the RIGHT half processor board is the next most likely cause of LEFT half sensor block (i.e. 320 or ...

I signed up for a "U-M Friend Account" to post on the discussion thread, using a throwaway email address. Good thing, too; within four hours, I've already gotten three virus emails sent to that address! That's definitely a record...

I have seen a "no impact" keyboard that projects light onto anysurface you like, though I dont know how well it works? I imagine combined with a Wacom tablet the overall experience would be better than Fingerworks....... if the keyboard works well. http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/ No gesture ...

Another brief update: even though it is the left half of one of my TouchStreams that is malfunctioning, the defect seems to be in the right half. I swapped in the left half from a keyboard that works, but powers up only once every several tries. The resulting keyboard had exactly the same problem: ...

An article posted yesterday (http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/ ... issect.ars) shows that the mouse does use capacitive sensing, but I'm going to be really annoyed if this is the only way FingerWorks technology gets applied going forward...

Actually, it DOES use capacitive sensing! Just not very well:

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/ ... issect.ars