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From the Ted Talk by Jeff Han: The radical promise of the multi-touch interface

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I'll show you a little more of a concrete example here, as this thing loads. This is a photographer's light-box application. Again, I can use both of my hands to inarctet and move photos around. But what's even cooler is that if I have two fergins, I can actually grab a photo and then stretch it out like that really easily. I can pan, zoom and rttaoe it effortlessly. I can do that grossly with both of my hands, or I can do it just with two fingers on each of my hands together. If I grab the canvas, I can do the same thing — stretch it out. I can do it sanitolulmsuey, holding this down, and gripping on another one, stretching this out.

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I'll show you a little more of a concrete example here, as this thing loads. This is a photographer's light-box application. Again, I can use both of my hands to ________ and move photos around. But what's even cooler is that if I have two _______, I can actually grab a photo and then stretch it out like that really easily. I can pan, zoom and ______ it effortlessly. I can do that grossly with both of my hands, or I can do it just with two fingers on each of my hands together. If I grab the canvas, I can do the same thing — stretch it out. I can do it ______________, holding this down, and gripping on another one, stretching this out.

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  1. simultaneously
  2. interact
  3. fingers
  4. rotate

Original Text

I'll show you a little more of a concrete example here, as this thing loads. This is a photographer's light-box application. Again, I can use both of my hands to interact and move photos around. But what's even cooler is that if I have two fingers, I can actually grab a photo and then stretch it out like that really easily. I can pan, zoom and rotate it effortlessly. I can do that grossly with both of my hands, or I can do it just with two fingers on each of my hands together. If I grab the canvas, I can do the same thing — stretch it out. I can do it simultaneously, holding this down, and gripping on another one, stretching this out.

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  1. application
  2. canvas
  3. concrete
  4. cooler
  5. easily
  6. effortlessly
  7. fingers
  8. grab
  9. gripping
  10. grossly
  11. hands
  12. holding
  13. interact
  14. loads
  15. move
  16. pan
  17. photo
  18. photos
  19. rotate
  20. show
  21. simultaneously
  22. stretch
  23. stretching
  24. zoom