piergiuz (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

4 minutes of touchscreen....less than 1 minute of multitouch video....

crazyintellect (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

because Linux distributions are free...one might go for this...but from a relatively impartial viewpoint (please don't shout at me lol) MS' windows 7 is at least 5 times better. As dude below said...would be awesome to have this on my netbook (aspire one)...right now I'm running ubuntu on it :)

adamx20 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I wonder how well this will work on a Mini 9 modded with a touch screen running Xubuntu. **Plans for the future**

RandomNinjaOfEvil (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

where do i get the software i hear it isn't in default X

GegoXaren (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

timing, nice stuff, i wonder if it is possible to make a glove with a chip and that refers to the active mouse, so it knows witch is witch [that explication just sucked]

tinkledoomhammer (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The multiple colours are based on timing. If the guy on the right had lifted his hand at the wrong time, it would have reversed their colors. Basically, the selection of a colour is a click, which requires a down and an up event. It associates it with the pointer that creates the next down event. Tuning the timing on these systems is a pain. You may have noticed a glitch where, when they were both drawing in the same window, a grey line was created between them.

facucario (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

lol... I agree

nicolunacba (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

wooo! this is better than MS Surfice ... !!! cool

paxcoder (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Of course, but the question was - How does it remember? It's not like dragging a mouse. You can lift up your hand, and proceed at another point. So, how do you know which finger is which pointer, if you will. Actually, in the meanwhile, I found out. Turns out that each man has a different electric potential (different charge), so on that, it determines the user. But if you do it with two hands (1 user), the charge is same, so there's no way to determine which hand you're using at what point.

carfreak92 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I'm no expert on this, but my best bet is this: That drawing app is designed for MPX, so it knows that there is more than one pointer. When it's drawn on, it "remembers" what pointer selected what color.