{"id":12401,"date":"2007-06-20T23:49:50","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T23:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/06\/multitouch-2-or-10000.html"},"modified":"2007-06-20T23:49:50","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T23:49:50","slug":"multitouch_2_or_10000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/20\/multitouch_2_or_10000\/","title":{"rendered":"Multitouch: $2 or $10,000?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Medallia claim to have <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.medallia.com\/2007\/06\/dyesight.html\">devised a multitouch user input device<\/a> using two dollars&#8217; worth of dye and Ziploc bags.&#160; Hmm&#8211;interesting clip, but doesn&#8217;t it seem they&#8217;ve pretty much mashed up a couple seconds of new footage (producing colored blobs) with chunks of other people&#8217;s demos (the chess demo from Tactiva, etc.)?&#160; Beyond the technology, I&#8217;m struck by the number of comments below the video that boil down to &quot;hah hah u pwned those fat-cats lolz!!&quot;&#160; <em>Man<\/em> are there some credulous people in the world. [Via Tom Attix] <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of pwning Microsoft, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY\">this parody<\/a> of the recently-announced, $10,000-a-pop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/surface\/\">Surface<\/a> project is pretty damn funny.&#160; I can&#8217;t wait to get tanked with <em>my<\/em> friends, using a device <em>the size of a small car.<\/em> [<a href=\"http:\/\/robrohan.com\/2007\/06\/20\/microsoft-surface-parody\/\">Via<\/a>]  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Medallia claim to have devised a multitouch user input device using two dollars&#8217; worth of dye and Ziploc bags.&#160; Hmm&#8211;interesting clip, but doesn&#8217;t it seem they&#8217;ve pretty much mashed up a couple seconds of new footage (producing colored blobs) with chunks of other people&#8217;s demos (the chess demo from Tactiva, etc.)?&#160; Beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12401"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}