14 Oct 04 / jazzmutant multi-touch control surface

hci, tech toys

It's called Lemur (not to be confused with LEMUR), and it looks pretty interesting.

There's a school of though in computer-based instrument design that says the controller should be flexible in order to match the flexibility of the software. Hardware tends to have a difficult time being flexible, which leads to controller like Lemur, which is "a handy and modular touchpanel based conroller designed for audio and multimedia real-time applications."

It's basically a 12" touchscreen (capable of detecting multiple contact points) in a nice silver case with a dedicated processor, graphics card, and ethernet port. You can configure the UI on your PC, then it'll send OSC control data over ethernet.

One can only wonder how much it'll cost...it's supposed to be available in the first quarter of 2005.