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HOLY CRAP!!!

check out this amazing video of experiments with multi-touch interaction for computer applications.
if there's anything i've learned from the Nintendo DS, its that touch screens are one hell of a lot more innovative than the crap we've seen on Palm Pilots and the consoles on Star Trek.
Apple Computers recently filed a patent for a gesture user interface. the illustrations included with the patent can be seen here. the illustrations clearly show how such an interface would work with iTunes, iPhoto, iPod, word processing, and a world map application. all i can say is "awesome."
rumors are flying this interface could debut on a "real" video iPod this spring (most analysts say that the video iPod that came out in november wasn't the "real" one, but just a souped-up fourth generation iPod, which it really really was) which would have its face completely filled with a screen, rather than a small screen and a click wheel.
also, rumors are flying that Apple is trying to buy Palm.
maybe, if Apple buys Palm, they could combine the Palm Pilot and the iPod with this new gesture user interface and make an absolutely astounding multimedia pocket computer.
i must be dreaming.