IntuiFace 2G Multi-touch Table

Ryan Stewart has an interesting video of a multi-touch surface table called IntuiFace 2G (they have a smaller version called 1G). What was really cool is that the programming was done in Adobe AIR.

That's exciting to me for a couple of reasons. First, Adobe AIR is an excellent platform for interface development. It supports the Flash and Flex, Ajax, HTML and even PDF documents. Second, the number of developers already familiar with Flash, Flex, and/or ActionScript is large and growing. I don't know if its more than those doing WPF development but its significant.

IntuiFace doesn't say how much their device costs or what the SDK is or the development enviroment. I would be curious to find out - it looks very cool and if you can do development using Adobe tools well that would put it right on par with Microsoft Surface development using Visual Studio 2008 and their expression Blend. (Note: Some people would argue that Adobe's design tools are better, which is probably true, but Microsoft's development tool, Visual Studio 2008, is better than Adobe's Flex Builder 3 so it all evens out.)