The french company Stantum, formerly know as Jazzmutant and developers of the infamous Lemur (Gregor wrote about it), have developed a 15,4″ multi-touch TFT screen. This was released in January already, but since then there have not been any news on this - we still try to get hold of one. I am sure that it works as smooth and responsive as the Lemur, but allowing to display whatever you need on a 1280×800 TFT, which is just what we need for interactive terminals, media browsers, games… and development of applications for our big multi-touch table.

Stantum provides a very basic explanation how it works, and they also released it as a development kit. We are sure this is the way human-computer interaction will evolve.

I posted about the Tenori-On before, and it seems that audio interfaces for electronic music are becoming more and more of a high-tech thing. I stumpled over the LEMUR by accident, looked at the website and was just amazed by how this multi-touch interface offers sheer endless possibilities of controls. And what’s really interesting is, how they managed to have a multi-touch surface on a screen that actually recognizes exact coordinates. We will have to look into this more detailed. Make sure to check out the video demos.

This has been quite around for a while but I just stumbled upon it again recently. The Yamaha Tenori-On is a music sequencer that allows you not only linear, but 2-dimensional audio programming. Additionally it sports cool visual effects on the 16×16 grid screen. This makes it not only a pleasure to listen to but also to look at. It’s a very playful and easy way of making music that sounds good in just a short amount of time. It opens new ways of producing to artists and an easy access for amateurs to the world of music programming.

Make sure you check out some videos on Youtube watching artists getting their hands on a Tenori-On for the first time, it’s just great what people do with it right away.

P.S.: Because we already talk about sound and music, I want to share this video, it doesn’t really fit into the schematics of this blog but it’s very entertaining and worth sharing. Enjoy.