Tuesday, June 3, 2008

How to build a cheap multitouch pad

Unfortunately not everyone has the $10,000 needed to buy a Microsoft Surface. So for everyone else, here's the cheap way:




Ok, so it looks like something thrown together on Bluepeter considering it's all sticky back plastic and pieces of paper, but it does show just how low-tech multitouch hardware really is. Presumably the finger-tracking software is a little more complicated.

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