Easy teamwork at your fingertips with high-tech table
Friday, June 2, 2006; Posted: 10:52 a.m. EDT (14:52 GMT)
KAMAKURA, Japan (AP) -- When a small group crowds around a personal
computer to work on a project, there's often considerable shuffling
for a good view of the monitor and control of the mouse or keyboard.
A new technology from Mitsubishi Electric Corp. aims to make such
collaboration easier by borrowing some ideas from a common piece of
furniture: the table.
Mitsubishi's DiamondTouch displays a PC screen on a high-tech
tabletop. People sitting around it use their fingers to create and
manipulate projected virtual objects, with the system knowing whose
fingers did what thanks to small currents of electricity that flow
through the chairs.
Article at
<<http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/06/02/japan.tech.table.ap/index.html>>
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