Multi-touch display - on a sphere!

Multi-touch displays are one of the great innovations of the past couple of years. The ability to zoom and/or scale objects by simply pinching or spreading two fingers across a display is an incredibly intuitive and useful feature. I use it constantly on my iPhone and I can't wait till I have a laptop and/or Minority Report-like computer to do the same. When Microsoft announced its Surface tabletop display, it was an exciting moment for us. We have had several clients who we feel can use these displays though we have yet to implement it for anyone. Our real estate clients in Abu Dhabi and Dubai are likely to use them for events or sales centers. And our Knowledge and Innovation clients will use them for conferences and presentations.

And now, along comes something that pushes it all to a new level. Microsoft has announced a multi-touch display in the shape of a sphere!



We built a Google Earth and Flash application (first in the world mashup of Flash and Google Earth, according to Google) for a client in Abu Dhabi for which this would be perfect! Imagine, you see the Earth - on a sphere! You zoom into Abu Dhabi. You see a 3D city being built on an island. You zoom in and fly around and watch videos and.....I think I better hop on the phone now with them!