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DIY Multi-touch from IDEO

w00t!  The folks at IDEO are working their magic again, this time in the form of a DIY kit for creating Flash based multi-touch interfaces.  That’s right, IDEO-made sorcery is now available to all via the IDEO labs blog at labs.ideo.com, complete with an ActionScript API (on Google Code) … how can one not love that?

Apparently Flash was well suited for the task at hand.  According to the team at IDEO, “”Flash proved to be a very nimble way to support this type of exploration”.

You can check out the actual video showcasing the interaction on the IDEO labs blog.

Caleb Adam Haye
Fire, Inc.

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One Response to “DIY Multi-touch from IDEO”

  1. Ajar Productions » Flash Forward 2008 in review Says:
    August 29th, 2008 at 12:32 am

    […] the cool things that IDEO labs is currently producing. Including some interesting variations on the multi-touch screen. They are also providing an open-source API for Flash that interacts with multi-touch […]

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