Unveiling the genius of multi-touch interface design | Jeff Han

[@marcochiappetta2763]

I remember watching this and being blown away. The photo album demo was particularly exciting. A year later the iPhone was released. Wow.

[@chiana1980]

I can NOT wait until this is 'old' technology and I can afford it :) its SWEET... I bet its gonna to wonders for animators....and of course many other professions

[@arthurdent6256]

Toni D Your wait is over :P

[@felipebrunetta2106]

By God I feel like a time traveler reading this comment

[@wookie4772]

@@felipebrunetta2106 its actually mad to see this comment. It's like a fossil

[@jacobwillhoite2066]

@Toni D your thoughts?

[@chiana1980]

Well... I plaid a game ona giant table top multi touch screen years ago and that was awesome. My ipad helps me create teaching videos and my 4 year old is pretty good with his. So clearly I'm enjoying being able to afford this tech. I'd love a giant one like his though!

[@bboi9421]

This guy was totally right, multi touch has changed the way we have interacted with machines. This is so weird that this was only eight short years ago! Time flies I guess

[@paulringger2620]

Boye

[@BaScHer007]

8 years later

[@askwen7731]

I’m watching this in 2020 and was kind of baffled by how this was a Ted Talk as it’s almost child’s play nowadays, hearing someone say “wow” at him manipulating a photo in a way that we can do on our phones anytime of the day... then seeing that this is from 2007! Reminds me of taking things for granted. These had a birth, have creators behind them. Amazing :)

[@Mango_B]

Watching this now, almost 2023, and what wowed the crowd then is blasé now. Technology marches forward.

[@HyperLuminal]

Amazing to watch this and realize that “this two finger pinch gesture” was something he really had to sell and explain. Such a new concept. Now you just inherently know to do this regardless of the interface you using be it phone, tablet, android, iOS, kiosk at McDonald, touch directory at the mall, etc

[@Ex0dus111]

Babies know how to do this now. My daughter when she was 1 year old, looked at a magazine and tried to pinch to enlarge one of the pictures. In a paper magazine!

[@mathewl0758]

Watching this in 2016 is kinda funny

[@Piper-z6r]

mathewl058 watching this in 2019 is funnier 😂

[@Ann-ep5qj]

Damn

[@lavetadhis7581]

watching this in 2024

[@HyperLuminal]

Wow @7:10 when he’s talking about the pinch gesture for zooming, tilting and panning; “again this is something we just came up with. It’s probably not the right thing to do...” Look at us now....

[@northway]

All modern touch screens should be called a "Han Interface", absolute genius

[@RickeyBowers]

I own a Toughbook laptop with a touch screen and my experience is that it works better than first thought. Some application naturally work better with touch while others would need significant change to be as effective as using a keyboard/mouse.

[@rajatpvt.9163]

Watching it in 2020 is kinda funny and weird at the same time.

[@GerbenWijnja]

Try watching it in 2024!

[@RealKungFu]

Exactly!

[@ssrini2002]

In 2020, this still looks cool!

[@hevertnbrito9246]

Os cara que revolucionáram o mundo dos Smartphones!🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@Macsk8ing]

So this guy made the iPad Pro in fucking 2006. Dammn you Apple!

[@EatsDishSoap]

watching in 2018, i have an Ipad that looks kinda like that thing! except its 1,000x more use-full and intuitive

[@ArtscopeMusic]

i want one! I've been wanting something like this for years to make music composition a much more intuitive process than mouse clicking.

[@doctorpanigrahi9975]

Did you get it?

[@prakharshriv]

its weird how we find it so normal nowdays!

[@Nihilianth]

Ten years later. I love the previous comments. Yes, multitouch has changed some things, mostly with smart phones, and smart phone apps. It has made handheld computing much more powerful, and therefore, conducting business and research far more efficiently. However, it hasn't completely changed the world like other inventions, such as the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, steel frame construction, and the digital computer. Multitouch is simply an evolutionary step-up in the digital computer technology sector, much like various improvements to the automobile over the years.

[@utubedano]

Can't believe this talk was just a few years ago!

[@evilmasterneclord]

Apparently, Microsoft has decided that the pinch gesture in Outlook on mobile should change the font size, rather than zoom in or out. Seems like 16 years of a standard way of doing a thing is wrong. :|

[@pachbentley]

It's certainly interesting to watch this 13 years down the line...

[@xankazo]

So, after all, Apple didn't invent this either... hmmmm

[@MrC0MPUT3R]

Apple hasn't really invented anything

[@shway1]

the internet, the world wide web, gps, all came out of funding from governments. corporations are generally focused on short term profits

[@Nihilianth]

Well, at the very end, the guy literally said: "We aren't the only ones working on this." So yes. Apple "invented" it, at the same time other teams have as well. And I'm not even an Apple fan....

[@dragon4c3_71]

Apple had this tech in early 05 so yes they did.

[@RavenWard]

Apple took technology and made it functional and useful. Noone is going to carry around this huge display in their pockets. The OS demonstrated sucks as well.

[@romxxii]

@gentlefury monopolizing the tech implies that no other manufacturers are doing it. Multitouch interfaces are included in a lot of products sold not by Apple, but by other companies. It's more accurate to state that Apple made the technology popular enough that it's become a standard feature for smartphones and other mobile devices. Lastly, based on his comments from a Popular Science interview, he hoped that the technology would become available at the consumer level. So he's probably happy.

[@tpatrickMc]

Right, and the presentation was given 11 months prior, in February of 2006. I don't care about patents, but thought that bit of info might be of interest to you.

[@GregWatermann]

Beautiful.

[@hevertnbrito9246]

Oiii kkk

[@timrogg]

9 years later...Why are we not at the point he demonstrates in this video. 'MONEY!!l

[@SpicyCryptozoologist]

where? what time in the vid?

[@eMJeyCGN]

this video was uploaded in January 2007. Apple was by then started production of the iPhone. This guy was clearly not the first one to invent this interface.

[@Ham549]

Microsoft had also already demonstrated the multitouch interface before Apple did with their surface.

[@julioramirez9680]

Inspired by Star Trek technology 🤟

[@tjsxav]

Why am I not surprised watching this in 2020?

[@fourbarposer]

People are all like "old news" I see. There's 4K 55 inch TV's selling for $600. Thus the question I have is: If 55"/3=18" and $600/3=$200, where are the $200 18" inch tablets? Add $200 to that and you make it a $400 18 inch 4K tablet with Windows or OS X/IOS ... This isn't old news until this happens. Add $100 for industrial strength case and stand, so it becomes a $500 18 inch Surface Studio, just more carry-able.

[@aprillinsthefox]

It is still fascinating in 2018

[@fayezsalka]

they hired this guy

[@cedrics7374]

When I heard clapping for the pinch zooming I checked the ipload date lol 😅

[@chizhang9135]

It becomes so common to people now

[@SpicyCryptozoologist]

five years later its so weird watching this on my iphone

[@ReductioAdAbsurdum]

"There's no interface here..." *reaches up and clicks a button on the interface*

[@InfiniteSword]

this technology is awsome

[@doctorpanigrahi9975]

Now it's affordable :)

[@ednan9]

You still around :)

[@mohamedameri360]

Lmao this was recommended by the “Jaw dropping” category on Ted app, I was like why the commotion till I saw the date this was published, all due respect.

[@ThisokeTheOtherOne]

Why did he not win a Nobel Prrize. My God man.

[@kakudmi]

I comment because I feel I have something to say, just like you do. If I stop commenting, will you stop as well? I do exactly what I want to do, I give seminars and write a book, as well as present my ideas on youtube just like this video. We always evolve and everything changes. Why do you believe we would stop? And what have we gained with this new technology? If I don't communicate my ideas with other, then this Internet is useless. You're sitting at your computer as well. Why criticizing me?

[@ECOMMUSK]

did it get purchased by apple before they made the iphone?

[@ferrari2k]

Wouldn't be surprised at all if that were true.

[@larryvelezbx]

@@ferrari2k Microsoft bought his company.

[@ngard777]

terrific!!!

[@oliviermosimann6931]

To think we take this tech for granted now... 😊

[@phuctrinh2589]

no way this is the first. Apple iphone released only 1 year later.and Steve Jobs still getting applauded as the first man to introduce pinching lol

[@m3mario]

For all the people who think apple got the wrong patent, Apple only patented their own technology for multitouch. That is why we have multitouch phones from other companies also. This guy's company "Perceptive Pixel" was bought by Microsoft. So this technology is the backbone of microsoft touch products. Not Apple. Apple did its own research and got a patent for its technology only.

[@Ham549]

Yet they try to sue Samsung for pinch to zoom.

[@LSLencrypted]

for once you'd get some AWESOME real time strategy games ;D

[@이윤석-g6w]

Watching this in 2021 with my s20+ 🤣

[@ddogbritt95]

Why was the crowd constantly laughing?

[@triple7marc]

Probably because nobody really saw the potential of technology like this. Styluses were what everyone used back then. It wasn't until the iPhone was released in 2007 that cell phones really started to take off and people started to see how this technology could change the world.

[@lemlok]

Because they are surprised and blown away : they had never seen such a thing before (apart from science fiction movies) and it seems so easy, fun, elegant and shown almost in a casual way... possibilities seem endless (and they are) Wouldn't you start laughing if someone told you : "well now that this dinner is finished let's let the table clean itself" and it just happens under your eyes.

[@GraveSplendor]

I estimate he says "kinda" or "kind of" about 7 times per minute. So, kinda 70 times in this video

[@ebuks505]

I started picking on them after I read this comment, he just doesn't stop! 😂

[@gentlefury]

wonder if he ever realized where this would lead....he wanted this to be the future of computer interaction...think he ever imagined Apple would try to monopolize this tech?

[@evil221884]

can you make the screen smaller so it fits in my pocket as small as a hone ??? then make it bigger when i want to use it as a desktop screen?? .......i hate fixed screen sizes!!

[@GustavoSRocha-gh8lt]

Maybe...

[@astroflex]

reminds me of the movie "Minority Report"

[@hiphopheaven]

He talk faster than Eminem was rapping on Rap God

[@nishantve1]

what is the full form of TED? or is it just a random word ?

[@orokro_stuff]

TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged

[@VideoClubMuenchen]

Was es vor 7 Jahren schon alles gab!

[@pr0w3ss]

friggin sweet

[@xDeltaF1x]

So Apple took the "no manual/interface" part, but removed the intuitiveness...

[@shway1]

iphones/ipads are very intuitive

[@MrHonestmann]

Just curious, how come apple got patents for these?

[@pjyast]

I just bought my nieces something like this for $20 at walmart.

[@mattiacallian]

Kinda interesting, kinda nice guy, kinda cool :)

[@thilotech]

YOu know that technolgoy exists now ;)

[@jaretjansen5179]

Its really cool but, wheres the interface on it?

[@thilotech]

God look at the date.

[@grimchain]

Most technology like this is invented in university labs, not corporate offices. The universities invent this and the corporation implement it. its nothign new

[@josephsmith6777]

If he only knew the i phone would come out the next yr

[@roberthere3819]

Although is has some neat ideas in it. The biggest thing I don't like is it messes up the actual screen you're looking at (finger smudges). You end up with the same effect as dirty glasses...which is irritating. It would be better with a second pad that could be folded out and it wouldn't matter if you smudged it. I also prefer voice commands when possible. We can easily speak at 200 wpm. Why bother trying to type at 100 wpm. Now what would be cool if you could tell the computer or show it a video approximation, then tell it to compose a painting that would be a mixture of Van Gogh and Monet. Get into some real AI type of creation. I saw this idea in the Tom Cruise film "minority report", also James Bond "Quantum of solice".

[@kacciahrula]

how many times did he say "kind of"??..

[@ihendrawijaya]

That really snappy processing for 2007

[@bytedildo]

i would never replace my keyboard!

[@dhk1126]

Would you still?

[@doctorpanigrahi9975]

You wot m8?

[@themariokartcheater]

water and air is technology

[@zwandien]

Watching this in 2024 is just 😅

[@42867Goat]

And so the iDesk was born.

[@ginoz531]

this was way before the ipad brah

[@masterkudjo]

Enough banter, lets get to business. Were can I get this, FOR FREE. AHAHHAHAHA

[@soundwavepiano8853]

Witchcraft.......typed on my galaxy s10+

[@s3xcr3w]

nice

[@cameronmiller6240]

Are there any practical applications that have resulted from this? I have used an iPad before. I mean specifically does anyone work with two handed touch screens and us creating valuable work they couldn't do otherwise? Or even significantly faster.

[@mrbrightside191]

ipad came later?

[@emylievyrling534]

Not nearly enough views on this..

[@SonikBlu23]

indeed.

[@matc8085]

indeed this is very old

[@AnshulMittal712]

And I thought it was Apple who invented multi-touch and pinch-to-zoom.. For some reason, I feel let down. :/

[@Ham549]

Apple just claims ideas of their own and then pedal the underpowered hardware to sheepeople.

[@ubctango]

Then he drew a snake. Coincidence? I think not my friend.

[@zeethree]

Microsoft owns this company now. :-)

[@BlackDaBuilda76]

2018 anyone?

[@MrJustJib]

Steve Jobs in the audience ......?

[@l3p3]

Apple had invested in things linke that.

[@ciarankane8246]

Hello someone is using a bci to send me voices and noises can you ask the people doing it to the man in Dublin walkinstown to stop please reward offered

[@hunglemed]

LOL what's Apple's "think diffirent"??? LOL

[@albertyu3000]

But then what would happen to video games? D:

[@rasalghul9331]

I wish TEDTalks would return back to these "jaw-dropping" talks. In recent years it has relegated itself into sanctimonious Oprah-like sessions where the woke come together to out-woke itself. Boring.

[@unflexian]

i think you just aren't looking in the right place because there's plenty of that, difference is now it is in much more niche subjects and smaller audiences. pick a hobby and get into it:)

[@rasalghul9331]

@@unflexian There was a time when you can just get on the TEDTalks channel and see jaw-dropping talks - you didn't have to look for it in niche places...congratulations on totally missing the point.

[@themariokartcheater]

i usualy dont click see all comments so leave me alone

[@ZOx0_Omega]

cool awesome***

[@Kipsass]

cool :)

[@themariokartcheater]

this was before iphone

[@chris51282]

Give me MUDBOX and I will be pleased!!!

[@drsorrow]

Apple stole this idea

[@themariokartcheater]

apple did not invent multi touch screen

[@TrietPham]

SJ sitting somewhere....

[@chrismiller6095]

6000 years God made everything or tell us where all the invaluable materials came from nothing comes from nothing people will believe the impossible before they believe in God as the creator of everything the vast amount if different forms of life andhow everything fits in place just perfectly off just a little and it doesn't work , its amazing the lengths people will go to not to believe in God when it could not have come from anything else