{"id":156,"date":"2010-02-05T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/?p=156"},"modified":"2010-02-05T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T16:13:00","slug":"multi-touch-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/2010\/02\/multi-touch-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-touch Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the launch of the iPad not far off. Amazon seems to be\u00a0stirring. Amazon is said to have purchased <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchco.com\/company.html\" target=\"_blank\">Touchco<\/a>. This is the multi touch company whose tech is based of NYUs Department of Computer Science and Technology <a href=\"http:\/\/unmousepad.org\/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\">UnMousepad <\/a>worked on by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mrl.nyu.edu\/~perlin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Perlin<\/a>. Does the name ring a bell? You know, the guy that came up with Perlin noise. He has a\u00a0interesting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> on all sorts of stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Merge Touchco with the latest<a href=\"https:\/\/kindlepublishing.amazon.com\/gp\/vendor\/sign-in\/175-2585760-8368402?ie=UTF8&amp;originatingURI=\/gp\/vendor\/members\/kindlepubs\/kdk\/home\" target=\"_blank\"> KDK Beta(Kindle Development Kit)<\/a> and you might get a decent platform. \u00a0Looks like\u00a0Amazon\u00a0will be aiming at similar market as the iPad. Now the iPad obviously already has a massive back log of apps from the iPhone. The eBook deals and eBook cost seem to be weighted on\u00a0Amazons side.<\/p>\n<p>Only time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the launch of the iPad not far off. Amazon seems to be\u00a0stirring. Amazon is said to have purchased Touchco. This is the multi touch company whose tech is based of NYUs Department of Computer Science and Technology UnMousepad worked on by\u00a0Ken Perlin. Does the name ring a bell? You know, the guy that came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}