Computer Table!: Ideum's MT55 Pro Multitouch Table
Incite gadget-envy with this touchscreen computer, which stands nearly three feet tall, balances its 4' wide 16:9 HD LED table display atop an aircraft-grade aluminum base/frame (avail in your choice of 100+ colors), comes with a built-in Bose stereo, and's blazing fast thanks to an Intel Quad-Core i7-870 processor, which is, like, inside of your computer, and apparently a really good processor.
Multitasking is something we all think can be easily done when sitting at a computer with multiple applications open flicking our attention between them. But in reality, humans just aren’t that good at it. In fact, you sacrifice focus in order to carry out multiple tasks in a diminished capacity speaking from my own experience. You can still do multiple tasks, but don’t expect to do them all well.
Have you ever really sat down and focused on just one thing? If you have the patience to do this, something that seems to be disappearing fast in our instant-gratification world, you will probably find you perform that single task much better. Be that learning, playing, reading, writing etc.
To test how good or bad you really are at multitasking, Kongregate developer IcyLime has created a game called Multitask. It involves you looking after an increasing number of objects on screen as time goes by. You start with balancing a ball, then have to avoid some arrows, then interact with some boxes. At every stage the multitasking gets that little bit harder.
I am admittedly terrible with a top score of just 56. But I’d liked to know just how bad I am compared to others so post your scores below so we can compare.
If you play and enjoy Multitask, then IcyLime has done a follow-up game called Multitask 2 with slightly different tasks to manage. It’s not easier or harder, just different.
Here’s a video giving you some idea of what you end up coping with when playing: Play at Kongregate, via HN
Steve Jobs says that multitouch must be horizontal, but for some reason, I don not think this is quite what he had in mind: the Table Connect for iPhone is a close-to-complete project that marries a 58-inch multitouch surface with your jailbroken iPhone 4 through a 30-inch Dock Connector… not only charging your iPhone but turning your desk into your iPhone.
I’d want one to perch my iMac, but seeing as how I have never once seen the surface of my desk underneath its perpetual detritus of tobacco ash, beer bottles and discarded Starbucks cups, it might be money ill spent.
It all started while we were researching an article on future user interfaces. Touch interfaces are hardly futuristic at this point, but multi-touch hardware like the Microsoft Surface or the iPhone is just starting to become a big deal, and we decided to see what big things are going on in that field. What we found that surprised us..
You've seen our hands-on first impressions, now check the video summary of the new multi-touch, glass trackpad featured on Apple's new MacBooks. It covers 2-, 3-, and 4- finger gestures in addition to the traditional 1 finger gesture some of you would like to direct towards Steve for all those glossy displays. See the demonstration after the break.
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All you art collectors out there. Here is a chance to get a Giclee copy of some of Ian M Sherwin work. Ian is planning on doing a whole series of Marblehead, Massachusetts paintings. His work is amazing.
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