Digital Desk Revisited

Thanks to Richard Watts and Rob Hague for pointing me at Fujitsu’s system for interacting with paper using finger gestures.

It’s remarkably like the original DigitalDesk system created by my pal Pierre Wellner in 1991.

It’s funny to think, now, that when Pierre made this video, there was no web to post it on.

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