I stumbled upon this story on technorati today, suggesting that a touch-sensitive ipod is in the works. While I think that’s fun & neat & all, I didn’t get really excited until I watched this video of ‘multi-touch interaction experiments’ from Jeff Han.
I’ve often dreamed of touch-screen computing, particularly multi-touch video editing, but it’s always seemed a long way off. I know it’s been used a little — palm & treo make good use of it, as do POS systems in hoity-toity grocery stores, but it still hasn’t really been used creatively or to any great advantage in the normal everyday world of desktop computing.
Here’s my wishful thinking for the day: maybe (just maybe?) Apple’s new iPod, however small its ambitions, will help to usher in a new era of touchscreen technology that will tidy all our desktops & put more information at our fingertips.
Realistically, this stuff’s probably still a long way off. But a guy can dream, right?
