Building sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the 40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head mounted 3 D viewer.

Calibrate Touchscreen

Touch screen very, very nice.

Run the calibration tool for touchscreens

I want to touch its precious screen.

An input method for touchscreens

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These programs can use all the components of the iPhone the touch screen.

Yet another touch typing tutor

She's 28, by the way, and she does things with her computer screen and a touch pad that she can do faster than most humans.

Another was a computer that ran the same touch screen interface, ran exactly the same dialogues.

Now, imagine a screen, which is not only touch sensitive now, it's pressure sensitive.

So what you're seeing on the left is a touch device.

A news feed reader for touch tablets

The kde Control Center Screen

I noticed how we spent so much time on making it interactive this is, like, a touch screen and I noticed how you can only touch five places, and so, why are we wasting so much interactivity everywhere?

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Keyboard and Mouse Monitor for screencasts

That's multi touch, controlling a device by touching its display.

And when you touch it with your finger, you can actually, then, introduce all the forces on the face of that screen, and that actually has a certain amount of value.

And then, as he was doing that, he made an accidental click by hitting the touchpad you'll see him do that.

Now what's great about a multi touch sensor is that, you know, I could be doing this with as many fingers here, but of course multi touch also inherently means multi user.

You see the holding patterns that start to develop in the bottom of the screen.

We can put that up on a touch screen and you can play with that, and get more information about the clothing that you're interested in as you're trying it on.

If you look at the iPhone with its touch and the Wii with its bodily activity, you can see the tendency it's getting physical.

Now, this is a rear projected drafting table. It's about 36 inches wide and it's equipped with a multi touch sensor. Now, normal touch sensors that you see, like on a kiosk or interactive whiteboards, can only register one point of contact at a time.

Its central touchscreen control panel coupled with Apple Carplay or Android Auto are also further advancement in smart performance.

The surgeon is sitting at a console, and controlling the robot with these controllers.

There's many things about it. It becomes very simple, and basically what you're doing is you're just touching the machine, you're touching the cloud and you're going to compute that way.

Can I touch this one too?

There are four on board micro controllers that, each time this ring rotates it, as it passes the rear of the display, it picks up a position signal.

And the way you manage all these different gases and all these different gas supplies is this really high tech, sophisticated gas block up on the front here, where it's easy to reach.

This is a touching slate meant for blind children.

You can walk through. You can touch.

How can the nervous system misinterpret an innocent sensation like the touch of a hand and turn it into the malevolent sensation of the touch of the flame?

So we've implemented all the gestures you can do on the table, and you can think of it as an enormous touch interface.

I can touch it. I can play with it.

He did that, and the Internet Explorer changed page.

Small arms control

In the game that we created, of course, you control the wooden form that's on the screen there with your mind.

I'm very interested in touch sensitive displays.

But imagine that screen having lots of objects on it and the person has touched an object one of N like he did there, and then pushed on it.

UPnP Router Control

So, you can play a video game, drive through a piece of music, use your body gesture to control huge masses of sound, touch a special surface to make melodies, use your voice to make a whole aura.

In the case of this little example I'm holding, we used it to create a touch sensor that reacts to my skin by turning on this little light.