One more great reason to look at Android

I came across this on Hack A Day and must say it looks pretty awesome.  It is an application that will barcode scan a product and then search pirate bay for the related media.  Then it will tell your home PC to download the media.

Torrent Droid: Winner of Android Bounty Contest

Multi-Touch Projects

I came across these great links regarding multi-touch.  I think i am going to need to build a coffee table..

Building the touch surface:
http://www.digitalstratum.com/programming/ftir_build

http://tbeta.nuigroup.com/   - supported by Google SOC

http://hackaday.com/2008/05/20/multitouch-project-roundup/

http://gizmodo.com/391103/full+screen-multitouch-mac-os-x-is-here

http://wiki.nuigroup.com/Tbeta_-_Getting_Started

http://labs.ideo.com/2009/02/11/hacked-rear-projection-tv-into-multitouch-display

http://hackaday.com/2008/05/20/multitouch-rear-projection-tv/

http://hackaday.com/page/2/?s=multi+touch

http://www.softmt.com/

Tversity - Media Server

Here is some great software that runs on windows. It will download media from off the internet and convert the file format to work with your phone, appletv, xbox, etc. It will then provide you with access to this media. Check it out.

http://tversity.com/