Multi-touch becomes a very hot topic recently in the area of interaction design and media arts. Because of the search rate increase by the reason of iPhone’s multi-touch? tag “multi-touch”?

Jeff Han finally found Perceptive Pixel, Inc. to provide multi-touch, as business solution? Fever!
http://www.perceptivepixel.com/

Extremly hot topic, links share:

Open source, Projects and papers and researches

NUI group, working a group of “Open source Multi-touch” , wiki and forum, super helpful.
http://nuigroup.com

mutli-touch console
http://macrone.de/multitouch/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Building a multi-touch sensitive table
http://dundee.cs.queensu.ca/wiki/index.php/Building_a_Multi-Touch_Sensitive_Table

MERL diamond touch
http://www.merl.com/projects/DiamondTouch/

Jazzmutant, very expensive small multi-touch device, midi in/out.
http://www.jazzmutant.com/lemur_overview.php

Tactex, Tactex MTC Express:
http://www.tactex.com/products_array.php

Sony CSL, SmartSkin:
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/smartskin/

Sony CSL, HoloWall:
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/holowall/

Andrew D.Wilson, A Demonstration of TouchLight, an Imaging Touch Screen and Display for Gesture-Based Interaction, Microsoft Research (2004)
http://research.microsoft.com/~awilson/touchlight/

Department of Computer Science, Toronto University, Visual touchpad:
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~smalik/vtp/index.html

TACHI Laboratory, GelForce:
http://www.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kazuto/

On the table top:
http://www.onthetabletop.eu/

Touchlib (david walllin):
http://www.whitenoiseaudio.com/touchlib/
http://www.whitenoiseaudio.com/blog/

Soundlines:
http://www.hf.uio.no/imv/forskning/forskningsprosjekter/musicalgestures/participants/Soundlines/index.html

sport4mins:
http://www.sport4minus.de/blog/?cat=13

philips research:
http://www.research.philips.com/initiatives/entertaible/index.html

Tangent:
http://zima.ch/tangent/

more and more:
http://del.icio.us/naturalui/touch

update (at 25 mar)

update (at 1 April)

http://r3nder.net/resource/

http://www.v3ga.net/processing/BlobDetection/index-page-projects.html