Todd Sampson

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Monday, 02.25.08

Wii Multitouch Display Hack

Johnny Chung Lee, a CHI PhD student Carnegie Mellon University, has used a Wii remote to create an inexpensive multitouch display on any LCD monitor or flat surface — such as a wall or table. Even if you haven’t heard the term multitouch display, you have probably seen one in action on an iPhone or in Mark Coleran’s amazing movie visual effects.

Is it me or are tech hacks getting so much cooler every day?? Check it out…

Via O’Reilly Radar.

by Todd Sampson ยท Tags: Tech Hack

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Marcoullier.com » Johnny Chung Lee is a Wii hackmaster // Feb 26, 2008 at 8:49 pm

    [...] seeing that Todd had linked to Johnny’s awesome DIY multi-touch display demo, I felt it was only right to link to his mind-blowing head tracking demo. CMU doesn’t have [...]

  • 2 Eric Marcoullier // Feb 26, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    You think that’s killer, check out the head tracking demo I linked to from my blog.

    Also, how are you embedding YouTube videos into WP? It keeps barfing on me, even if I paste it in the code tab :(

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