My Dutch skills are weak to non-existant, and without a Google translator for MacArena.be, I’m pretty much stuck with staring at the above video and contemplating the short description provided:

A movie about the technology which Apple has recently patented. It is not a movie made by Apple but by some researchers.

Fortunately, this is an area where video is much more illustrative than words.

I sometimes get accused of blue sky thinking when I speak of the role of technology in our lives, but while I go on about how access to huge volumes of instantly searchable information is changing us, this video shows a rather near future where we can manipulate it ways that seemed like science fiction just the other day.

Props to Alan Baker for pointing this out to me.

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Posted March 23, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: alan baker, apple, future, hci, human computer interaction, information access, information manipulation, multi-touch, multitouch, near future, patent, touch, touch screen, touch sensitive, touchscreen.

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