mandarin.no » multitouch http://mandarin.no Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:35:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Apple patent influenced by Escher http://mandarin.no/misc/apple-patent-influenced-by-escher/ http://mandarin.no/misc/apple-patent-influenced-by-escher/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:59:11 +0000 Thomas Viktil http://mandarin.no/?p=20 As I was looking for any rumors around a release of a new Wacom Cintiq (if anyone knows anything, please leave a comment), I stumbled across Hrmpf, a website which has a few articles on Apple patents. One of them being about a multipoint touchscreen. I couldn’t help noticing the Escher-effect of the illustration. Look at this:

The inside of the thumb transforms to the upper side of the index finger. WTF?

Not that it changes my view on Apple. I still love my Macbook Pro! :-)

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