Wednesday, April 25, 2007

The Amazing World of Jeff Han


Some of you may have seen Jefferson Han's video from last year's TED conference with his amazing work in transforming the way we use computers -- specifically using an intuitive touch interface. It's reminiscent of the comment in one of the early Star Trek movies, "Ah, a keyboard -- how quaint."

If you think differently about the way you organize your photos with Google's Picasa, and you thought you saw a glimpse of the future of computing in "Minority Report," take a look at this new video of Jeff's "multi-touch" manipulation of ideas around a screen at this year's conference. The i-phone touchscreen was interesting, but collaboration by throwing things back and forth on a giant computer wallboard changes things to a new order of magnitude.