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Everything’s Amazing & Nobody’s Happy

A good reminder to be thankful for what you’ve got, courtesy of Louis C.K.

Taiwanese Elan Microelectronics claims to have patented multi-touch technology under the name “eFinger Transparent Touchpad” before Apple filed for that patent. They already had some issues with Synaptics, the company that has been supplying Apple, no more no less, with their own touch technology (e.g. touchpad for iPods).

Now, Elan Microelectronics is suing Apple over multi-touch (or was it multi-finger?) patents. In this video you can see their eFinger Transparent Touchpad technology being used in a device that runs Android OS. That also proves the flexibility and potential of open-source Android platform.

On a side note, it is evident that Elan’s technology is more powerful then the original T-Mobile G1’s capacitive screen has and as demonstrated by an Android deveoper, Rye Brye, several months ago.

Watch this clip from Image Metrics, a Californian company which makes computer-generated imagery for Hollywood films started with a video of an employee talking. This company produced animation for the Grand Theft Auto computer game.

In creating this animation (can you tell?) they broke down the facial movements down into dozens of smaller movements, each of which was given a ‘control system’.

Hear Emily, one of the employee’s animated avatars talk about the technology.

[via Pikey1969]