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Some folks from MS are being up-front about the precursors, but some others are pumping the PR on the thing as if it were tabula rosa.
FWIW, it reminds me most of “put that there” from 1980:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=807503
Neat stuff, but a little funny on the intellectual property side, because it isn’t always who has the best idea as who has the time and money to play with prototypes. I used to call them “new territory” patents.
As odograph mentions, I find it rather annoying how MS is touting this as some sort of breakthrough.
The many many years of work in this field at the Media Lab at MIT: http://tangible.media.mit.edu/
Or the work of Jeff Han: http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/
The latter’s website has some pretty cool videos.
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