Look out, Microsoft Surface - the iTable might just trump you in every way

Seems like the natural digital interface possibilites of multi-touch, first championed for mass-consumption by the iPhone, and more recently touted as a feature of Windows 7, is spreading to other manufacturers as well. Here's an example from the recent CES tech conference: (via crunchgear)

Who would have thought that one of the coolest things we’ve seen at CES would be hidden in a 10×10 booth at the very back of the South Hall? Like a diamond in the rough, there sat the PQ Labs iTablet.

They’ve essentially taken the idea behind the Microsoft Surface and have done it better in every way. It’s cheaper, it’s gorgeous, and perhaps most notably, it’s not a hulking monster.

Two of the most notable features of the Surface are its multitouch capabilities and the availability of a development SDK, both of which PQ Labs has matched (or, in the case of the SDK, plan to match soon). The number of fingers detected by the multitouch sensor is limited only by the individual software designer’s desire - the hardware itself supports as many simultaneous prods as you can throw at it.

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