Scientists at Microsoft Corporation’s lab in the UK have developed a prototype interactive touch-screen that can see and recognize one’s hand movements and anything near its surface. The screen acts as a two-handed touch interface and a crude infrared camera. Users can operate the display with both hands, in a similar manner to the display in the film Minority Report, say its developers. However, the screen can also recognise particular hand gestures as well as objects placed within a centimetre of its surface, they say. “It can sense much more than fingers, and is essentially a low resolution scanner and camera,” said lead researcher Shahram Izadi, adding that the screen can even communicate wirelessly with other devices nearby using the same infrared technology it uses
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V2R today released its new Active UI MultiTouch plug-in which allows you to control all the latest V2R Active plug-ins with your finger – something which becomes even handier now, with HTC’s new biotouch display technology which is used for the HTC Touch and HTC Touch Dual. Active UI MultiTouch adds a small and multi functional plug-ins to your Windows Mobile Professional and Classic Pocket PC’s Today screen. For instance, the V2R MultiTouch plug-in allows you to control WiFi, vibration, time and date, your alarms and device lock, or just to start any of the the other V2R Active plug-in’s: MultiTouch adds the following V2R Active plug-in’s to your Today screen: * V2R PhotoDialer 2, to call your favorite people directly from the Today screen