A year ago Endgadget ran a story about a Microsoft multi-touch sphere prototype which got a lot of press (here is the project page). I think it's a pretty cool device but I have no idea what you would use it for other than as a visual model of the earth with various overlays.There have been a couple other multi-touch sphere projects including one from the Human Media Lab and more reciently a very large multi-touch sphere created by Seeper (see video below).
While the visuals are interesting I still don't see the practical applications for such a device outside of showing different mappings of the Earth, Moon or some other celestial body. For example Lynn Marentette has post showing a video of Global Imagination's The Magic Planet which is not multi-touch but is a large sphere used as a projection surface. That's cool and it would be even better if you could spin the planet with your fingers but what else can you do with a sphere as a projection and touch surface?
In Progress... Interactive MultiTouch Sphere. from seeper on Vimeo.
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