Multi-Touch Interface have gone to the Devil?
So I’m looking around online today with the 5 minutes I have while drinking my morning Coca-Cola, I see my beloved Multi-Touch Interface System that I have been following for well over a year now show its head again. Now instead of it being on a wall it has made itself into a coffee table type of housing.
I’m all for it being as a coffee table. Makes since in order for it to be used in the home or business as a kiosk or something. Then I read a little further and then see the Devil’s name (Bill Gates.) I hurry through the rest and find out that Jeff Hans has sold out to M$. However, I believe that he would be smart enough not to sell his work just straight out to M$. I think that he is allowing them to use his interface as a partner.
Well even if the system will have the M$ branding I would still be interested in it because of the futuristic styling and feel. Microsoft is calling it Surface. Because Mirosoft really didn’t create any of this I think it has a fighting chance. Of course the initial price is going to cost a left nut ($5,000 – $10,000) but for the future of computers and controling things creatively I think it is a very exciting step. Not just for M$ but for computers in general.
Personally I wish that Apple would have been able to join Jeff Hans with getting something like this, but I’m sure Apple will have something to answer it. 
Here is a link to a video I found on it being used.
PS – I would link to all of the old Multi-Touch Interface System posts I have made previously but the Search part is screwed up.
Enjoy,
Luzianne Coffee
The other day while I was at the grocery store I noticed a different brand of coffee that I have not seen before called Luzianne. I am sure theDarkStranger can add his 2 cents on this one. But this coffee is blended with Chicory (a plant). One of my previous coworkers told me about this a few years back but again I didn’t pay much attention to it. This coffee mixture of coffee and chicory was labeled as ‘The poor mans coffee’ since as the label states, you can get 20, 30 even 40 more cups from one container of their coffee.
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ASP High Point Reached
This past weekend we attended the GeoBash II in Allegany State Park, which is a Geocaching event to gather all the local geocachers together. They have all kinds of different events going on during the coarse of the day but its mostly for caching and meeting people that enjoy the same hobby.
Evil Diva was determined to grab the ASP High Point cache which was being removed/archived on Sunday. As the name describes, this is at the HIGHEST point in the entire State Park which is at 2384 feet. The trek up the hill is 1.5 miles which seemed like a lot more considereing we had to bushwhack our way to the top seeing the original hunters path is poorly marked and we did not have the TOPO maps on our GPS to follow the ridge.
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Meat Cake
There’s not much to talk about until you’ve taken a look at the magic that is Meat Cake.
Mmmm… meat cake.
8-Bit Operators
Heard about these guys one the radio the other day….this sounds bad-ass….enjoi!
Listen here for the broadcast….Circuit Bending?! WTF! I find that its things like this that make my place in this world seem so small:)
