Tweets for Today

• 08:30 @glynmoody And the HP150 did X/Y positioning through infrared. And Apple aren't patenting touchscreens..... #
• 08:30 @glynmoody ... and the other guys on the patent are from Fingerworks, the pioneers in gestural touch screens #
• 08:32 @glynmoody Important words in the abstract "for use in conjunction with a computing device with a touch screen display" #
• 08:36 @glynmoody (a) it's not a patent for touch screens (b) it's based around a touch screen that detects finger shape and movement #
• 08:37 @glynmoody Through a heuristic mechanism. That's core of the patent. If you remember prior art, good chance it was from FingerWorks. #
• 08:39 @glynmoody It meets mine as a coder. Patents are not required to be utterly unique, they are about advancing the art. #
• 08:44 @glynmoody And do check the referenced patents, is.gd/hmNX for example #
• 13:05 @glynmoody If you have a progress bar that is an advancement of the art of progress bars.... #
• 13:06 A busy but good morning. Nice to see people excited about what we're planning.... #
• 13:08 @glynmoody We have our first discussion topic :) #
• 14:05 @p4ula is.gd/hopc should work on a bigger hard drive too :) #
• 14:12 @jackschofield On Twitter or for real .... the boy's got a reputation #
• 15:40 Wish there was a mini displayport to displayport cable for these here Dell monitors... none to be found so far. #
• 16:22 @p4ula Visions of two piles of dust... written and unwritten dust :) #