Multitouch devices are all the rage - they allow you and your friends to use your hands all together to control and interact with the computer. If you haven't seen one before take a look at this video:
This is a multitouch application running on the Microsoft Surface - a multitouch device designed for the entertainment industry, if costs approx. £10000.
But you can make a multitouch device to work with your laptop or school PC very easily and very cheaply.
All you need is:
1) A Windows computer
2) A cardboard box - quite a tall A4 sized one would be perfect.
3) A Web cam
4) A sheet of acrylic a little bigger then the size of your box opening (you can use a picture frame for the whole of the top)
5) A sheet of normal printer paper/tracing paper the size of your acrylic sheet
6) Scissors and sticky tape
Here is a short video showing you how to make the multitouch device. Once you have made this you will need to install the software on your computer to enable it. The required software, and instructions to use it, can be downloaded from here. The NUIGroup is a community of hobbyists who build multitouch devices.
This is a dream piece of DIY.. I'm sure every business man can see the fortunes to be made from such an application so its very refreshing to see the data community offering the potential to anyone with enough interest to do something about the fact they simply don't have between 10 and 30 grand to access the present. Check it out, what is it? Is it really a piece of unremarkable technology? actually the answer is YES. The previous comment is hardly a put down but more designed to inspire others to look right under their noses and acknowledge the amount of data they have access to. When I see a video like this my instincts are trained to disbelieve what i am seeing as too good to be true but it is true, it is doable! this is the kind of video that could change a person's life leading to a change in people's lives and so on until things are possible that couldn't have been thought of before, so here's to that one person who may be inspired. One might say i'm being too fanciful here, What do you think?..jkl
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