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FAA Gets a Big-Screen Touch Table

Posted by kdawson on from the every-situation-room-needs-one dept.

Matt writes "Northrop Grumman, best known for missile systems and other military gear, has for years been selling the TouchTable as part of what it calls an ' integrated collaboration environment.' They delivered their TouchTable to the US Federal Aviation Administration last month and will showcase their technologies next week at a defense conference in London. There are two versions of the TouchTable; one with an 84-inch screen (1600x1200 resolution), the other with a 45-inch screen (1920x1080 resolution). Moving a hand across the surface pans the display' two fingers moving apart zooms it out; and two fingers moving together zooms it in. This simple interface allows users easily to change a view from miles above the Earth to a detailed layout of a single city block."

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  1. Brilliant by cpq · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google Earth + Touch Screen + Plasma = How many billion? Brilliant.

  2. Resolution by russlar · · Score: 5, Funny

    one with an 84-inch screen (1600x1200 resolution) those are some big-assed pixels.
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    1. Re:Resolution by Jugalator · · Score: 2, Funny

      Speaking of which, I wonder what the largest pixel in the world is.

      I couldn't find anything even when Googling it.

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  3. Re:Counter-intuitive zoom? by SlowMovingTarget · · Score: 2, Funny

    Methinks someone was not paying attention to Grover on Sesame Street: "Near! ... (bounce, bounce, bounce)... Far!"

    Fingers apart == far == zoom out, fingers together == near == zoom in. If you drew an imaginary rectangle over the physical location being viewed, zooming out would make the rectangle bigger (widening as the GP poster phrased it), and zooming in would make the rectangle smaller over the actual physical location (narrowing). Pretty darn intuitive, if you ask me.

  4. Re:Interface Design by pimpimpim · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's called the goatse interface. Using two hands two move the point of interest apart enables a closer look.

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  5. Other hand gestures? by Mathness · · Score: 2, Funny

    Moving a hand across the surface pans the display' two fingers moving apart zooms it out; and two fingers moving together zooms it in. And a two finger "salute" bombs the target.
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