Multi-Touch Computer Control

If you haven’t seen the video of computer engineer Jeff Han demonstrating his multi-touch computer screen, you’ve missed something quite spectacular. The movie’s available as one of the TED Talks I blogged about a few weeks ago. Apple’s iPhone apparently makes use of a similar technology, but only entails two finger touch control, as opposed to Han’s full ten.

It’s not easily grasped how this will have an impact in legal technology. The re-sizable virtual keyboard is one likely inovation that everyone will use to enter text if typing it in is still the practice. And the visual display of data is another possibility, as Han mentions, to the extent that there’s quantifiable data involved in what ever legal it is that you’ll be doing. Perhaps it will mean that you’ll read a book by flipping the pages with a casual (but unlicked) finger. See the video and begin to speculate. This is technology that will be coming to a computer near you far sooner than you think.