Steve Clayton “Geek In Disguise” has a post up about something very cool.
Well, I’ve got no idea what it is - there’s an embedded video of some sort from (I believe) Brightcove - but it has… “issues”.
The first issue I encountered was that it complained about the connection speed.
Work’s connection isn’t that bad, depending on the site I can pull down 50-100K/sec from most well-connected US Sites. 900K/sec+ from Australian sites isn’t unheard of either. (Using a Speed-Test site I get between 4Mbit and 6Mbit down - which isn’t bad.)
The the other major issue is that it crashes Firefox (latest release) randomly. Loading it up in Internet Explorer 7 I just get a spinning “Loading Video” icon for something over 5 minutes (I wasn’t prepared to wait longer).
It’s also difficult to find out what Steve is referring to - since he just links to the RSS feed for the Business Two Zero blog - no descriptive text, nada. Perhaps Steve is referring to the Multi-touch screen?
These issues aren’t Steve’s fault - but by not providing any helping text, made it inaccessible to someone who can’t see/use the video.
Aside from that - Steve’s blog is generally pretty cool… just, this once thing annoyed me I’ve had a few of these Brightcove embedded videos show up in my Google Reader recently, both times resulting in a lockup and crash.
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Firefox just crashed, but yesterday when I viewed it, it was fine.
Onto the content, yes, its a multitouch screen…you use your hands to control it (touch screen), you can drag objects back and forward, resize, rotate, etc.
If you follow what you link to, you get to http://multi-touchscreen.com/
The video Steve shows is the more advanced version of it
February 19th, 2007 at 3:54 pm. Permalink.
Hi Will,
Yes Steve was pointing to that post on my blog with the latest demo of Jeff Han’s multi-touch screen. It’s awesome technology that probably isn’t that far off a real, commercial implementation. Thans for linking bt sorry you had problems.
February 20th, 2007 at 2:46 pm. Permalink.