This is something amazing ... Which of us have not heard about Microsoft Surface? So here. Some team
Natural User Interface has developed something similar, and that is, an application written in ActionScript 3, playing on the Multitouch Table.
Multitouch or Multi-touch technology , on which the touch screen supports simultaneously several presses. For example, bringing your fingers together can reduce the image on the display, while expanding it, you can enlarge it. Multi-touch pads allow you to work with the device more than one user at a time.
The development of Multi-touch technology began in 1982 at the University of Toronto and Bell Labs .
The presentation of "
Flash Surface " :) will be shown at the
MAX conference in late September, in Chicago. How it works, you can see
today . Also some
more clips available on Google Video
')


The key difference from Microsoft Surface will be that this AS 3 library will be open source (That's exactly what the developers promise. All the details are from the
Natural User Interface ), i.e. we ourselves, with our own hands, will be able to modify and use this miracle with complete impunity.
Yes ... Naturally, the developer should be a happy owner of the touch screen (popularly simply called touchscreen) to develop applications for it. Is this a problem? :)
The potential customer will provide you with everything you need.
By the way, I almost forgot, the library is written in ActionScript 3 - which means Flash Player 9. And if this is Flash Player 9, then yes, yes ...
HD-Video , the
new Flash Media Server, and so on.
A great future of this approach and mobile phones that support Flash Lite. Just a great future. Yes, so far Flash Lite does not support ActionScript 3, but I have no doubt that this will be for a while. Just Flash Lite will be another bomb from Adobe ...
And in general, this approach to developing Flash (Flex?) Applications, albeit not revolutionary, but I would say very promising. Since the mouse and keyboard, slowly and temporarily live out their last days (do not cling to the words) and the future is already ... Here it is!
What did you think, what niche will the Flash Platform take in 10 years? :)