100 PERCENT DESIGN SHANGHAIFrom June 26-28, the likes of Richard Hutten, Michael Young and Patrick Jouin joined creative directors Tobias Wong and Aric Chen in the Shanghai Exhibition Center to showcase design in one of the fastest developing parts of the world.61 images
HAMBURG HARLEY DAYS 2008They said: "Oh my God, Harley-Davidson is coming to town!" We decided to see for ourselves at the Hamburg Harley Days (June 20-22) with some 75,000 (custom) motorbikes and a talk with Bill Davidson about the rock and roll of design.80 images
BERLIN DESIGN FESTIVAL 2008"The Sky Is Not The Limit" at the Berlin Design Festival. The five day event (May 21-25) by DMY Berlin wants to show us that anything is possible. From a city where design is always and everywhere we highlighted the Swiss Design Prize and central Arena exhibitions.64 images
NEW YORK DESIGN WEEK 2008The pit-stop between Milan and Art Basel, New York Design Week 2008 (May 17-20) nontheless presented a hearty collection of the best the Design World has to offer.224 images
MAKER FAIRE 2008A sprawling wonderland of populist and homespun technology, courtesy of Make Magazine. San Mateo, California - May 3-4, 2008.48 images
The super touchscreen technology known as Multitouch is a revolutionary advance in interface design that makes the iPhone possible.
As shepherded by Jeff Han's company Perceptive Pixel, it enables CNN to present election results in a novel way, becoming "a stupendous way to explain a lot of complicated data."
And perhaps most importantly, multitouch means we can play huge games of Missile Command without that lame-o trackball.
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Multi-touch doesn't make the iPhone possible. The only way the iPhone makes use of multi-touch is for zooming in and out of photos and maps. Beyond those minor interface elements, nothing in the about the iPhone's revolutionariness is dependent on multi-touch.