well a couple differences... its not like a touchscreen really, as a touchscreen cannot track 2 seperate points of contact. furthermore, the audiopad is not touch sensetive, but rather the position of the objects are "magnetically" tracked and the GUI is projected onto the board based on the object positions.
its a new technology that james patten has developed as part of his research at mit -Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "313 list" <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 7:00 PM Subject: Re: (313) Audiopad - meet the future of midi control > It's a nice proof of concept, but the fact that it doesn't really > make performing any easier, more intuitive or more expressive is what > disappoints me. Furthermore, it's just a slightly different way > of doing a touchscreen, which is old news. > > One of the guys that did it is on IDM and he's a nice guy. I'm not > saying that it isn't cool looking. All I'm saying is that it's nothing > earth shattering. > > On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Ok it might not be all that earth-shattering from a _programming_ level but > > from an _interactive/performance presentation_ level I do think it will > > open doors to "the next step". >
