Prior art in Hollywood

Posted Feb 2, 2009 23:38 UTC (Mon) by boog (subscriber, #30882)
Parent article: Apple's touch-screen patent

Maybe the patent examiners have watched The Matrix...

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Prior art in Hollywood - correction

Posted Feb 2, 2009 23:50 UTC (Mon) by boog (subscriber, #30882) [Link] (1 responses)

Oops - that should be Minority Report (with the arm-waving wide-screen interface). Tom Cruise must have used two hands at least once in the film. So it was obvious even to somebody not versed in the art.

Prior art in Hollywood - correction

Posted Feb 3, 2009 14:09 UTC (Tue) by TRS-80 (guest, #1804) [Link]

Not just Hollywood - it was based on a real product.