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Don’t those Microsoft Surface computers look awesome? Yes, well for eight grand you would kind of hope they’d be slick. Unfortunately that price puts desktop multi-touch out of most people’s reach… or does it?

Here at TheTin we like our tech, particularly if it’s cheap. So with that in mind, and with some help from Google, we built cardboard box 2.0 – our multi-touch trackpad. Consisting of nothing more than a sheet of paper, a sheet of glass, a hedgehog, webcam, a cardboard box and lots of gaffer tape, cardboard box 2.0 was essentially a webcam in a box. Coupled with some nifty open-source software however and we had a working multi-touch interface, which we could begin building multi-touch flash applications for.  
 

Home-made multi-touch

Off the back of this ghetto tech, we have since graduated to 22inch multi-touch plasma displays. Don’t worry, we’ll be sure to recycle the box.