Microsoft Gives Away Touch Screen Laptops at PDC
Last year at PDC 2008, Microsoft gave all the attendies an external read-only harddrive with all of the software and presentations from PDC. It was nice, but this year was much better.At PDC 2009 Microsoft gave away 11

This Blows
Natural User Interfaces can be really interesting when they leverage interactions that people use in every day life, but sometimes research in this area goes a little bit far afield. Here is one example, BAMB the "blow" user interface. I can't think of a single reasonable application for this.

A kind of Magic
I've written a lot about Magic as a metaphor for designing NUI applications. It started out with a series of blog posts:Magic as a Metaphor for NUI Design: Part 1

The Winner of the Microsoft Surface Design Contest
Microsoft announced User Interface Design GmbH (UID) is the winner of its "Touch First Developer Challenge", a Microsoft Surface design contest announced a while back and judged at the PDC 2009.

Adobe Air 2.0 Beta Now Available
Today Adobe released the beta version of Adobe Air 2.0 and Flash 10.1 which support multi-touch. I discussed the beta in an earlier post.As I said before (