Multitouch

Apparently Windows 7 will feature multitouch capabilities.

It's probably a good idea to do a plugin (as the keyboard/mouse plugin) once the SDK is out

Which should be this year.

i don't think we can expect any standardized mass-produced multitouch hardware to become available at a reasonable price to a significantly large number of people in the near future.

wiimote excluded :)

I've always wondered what it would be like to play a game with two mouses... er, mice. Seems you could have some pretty neat control schemes that way.

Completely off-topic, sorry.

Wow I can now put multiple fingerprints on my non-touch screen at the same time!

Stupid ideas are made by Microsoft.

~Sol

It'll be interesting to see how this works in practice, for sure, even if it's a few years down the line..

I'm rooting for multiple wiimote pointers at once

I'd like to point out that notebooks with multitouch touchpads are shipping as we speak

Just sayin'

it's gonna be a standard Win7 API

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/alon/archive/2009/04/15/windows7-rc-multitouch-api-changes-from-the-beta-version.aspx