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This is so freaking awesome (more video goodness here). It's the end result of an Interaction Design project by Tim Roth who built a multitouch computer by himself and then built applications for it using Flash. According to Mike Potter, it's been rolled into a platform being built by Natural User Interface. According to Mike the software, built on ActionScript 3, is going to be open source so anyone building their own multitouch hardware can use it.
In doing some digging I think it's the same group that does Touchlib (and I think Touchlib is what's running the machine in the video. Touchlib is a multi-touch development kit which supports Flash via the TUIO protocol. I've heard rumors that Microsoft Surface's original demo were all based on Flash and so they may have been using Touchlib.
Mike points out that this has serious implications for mobile devices. Multi-touch stuff is really cool and having an open source development environment that lets you build multi-touch applications is going to be a great thing for the community. The hardware is just going to get cheaper, so the barrier to entry should be lower and lower as time goes by. These guys are coming to MAX (and brining the table) so make sure to swing by!
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