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Apple iPhone. . . why it’s so much bigger then actual size.

The iPhone represents a paradigm shift in computing.  It’s presence in the market represents the first time consumers have access to technology that up to now has only been baking in the lab:  multi-touch.  Check out Jeff Han’s company: Perceptive Pixel  Jeff is a hardware systems researcher at NYU that is exploring the possibilities with multi-touch in a very big way.  His global visibility came when his TED talk, given back in 2006 showing him play with a large flat panel system was posted.  I watch Jeff’s presentation on TED as well as the demo video on his website and realize that we are really only 5 years away from saying goodbye to the computer as we know it.  Imagine walking into your office and your entire desktop — minus the heat sensitive pad for your coffee — is your computer.  Virtual documents could exist on your virtual desktop and we will begin to truly realize the paperless office in a way no one thought possible.  Excuse me though, I digress.  Bringing this technology to us today, not tomorrow, but now, albeit in a smaller form-factor. . . is the iPhone.  The iPhone is the technology primer for a shift in not just mobile devices, but computing as a whole.  Apple also did some great supply chain slight-of-hand with it’s latest deployment of the iPhone 2.0.  With the application center as well as the licensing of Activesync from Microsoft, corporate customers as well as individual software vendors can develop solutions that target a platform with high fidelity video, gps locational information, and carries all the security needed to support remote and mobile user community.  The iPhone is not just a hip new product from a compelling product design firm, it’s the future, only it’s today.  With the iPhone, today Apple has managed to make our future multi-touchable.

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