Is Microsoft’s Multitouch Already Obsolete?

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April 25, 2008Multi-Touch TechNo comments

Multitouch technology has really inspired the modern world and ever since the implementation of Multitouch both on the iPhone by Apple and on the Surface by Microsoft, Multitouch technology has really been all that the world can talk about. Whether you look on blogs or within the electronic magazines of the day, Multitouch appears to be the technology of choice that is worth discussing across the electronic sphere of influence.

Oddly enough however, Multitouch technology, arguably developed first by Microsoft, appears to already be at a time when it is getting obsolete. While we love to joke about the computer that you buy being obsolete by the time you leave the store with it, strange things in computer labs appear to be giving a shred of truth to this notion as far as the Microsoft Surface computer is concerned.

And interestingly enough, these strange things are from a Microsoft computer lab!

A lab that Microsoft has in Cambridge has just reported that they have created a system that not only allows touch interaction like Multitouch technology, but it also happens to allow you to twist, bend, pull and squeeze different parts of the interface in order to make certain things happen. As one person put it, this is almost like Multitouch on steroids.

While this is something that should make many people excited, a word of caution is necessary because this is not even in the prototype stage yet. Eyes need to be kept on further developments to see if anything more comes from this Multitouch on steroids technology.