I have recently been immortalised on the web as an illustration.
The brilliant illustrator and designer behind the work is Andrea Bernauer.
I was involved in the development work on this demo and many others on the site.
To see it for yourself have a look here and click on the “Benefits” menu item in the flash content.
Here is the image on its own:

Today I made a multi touch input device from a cardboard box, webcam, picture frame, a piece of paper and some tape.
I followed this tutorial: http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/1731/
It was really easy and I had it up and running in les than 30 minutes after I got all the parts together.
Here is a video of it in action and photos of the box.
Multi touch box from sam hassan on Vimeo.


Its just a webcam in a box!!
October 8th, 2008
7:30 pm
Food
This wouldn’t go in one of those banana holders.

Thanks to Tim John for putting me on to this workaround
“This is annoying, but if you set a timer delay of a few hundred milliseconds, then call Mouse.hide() that should work.”
Air 1.0 mouse hide example source code