With a big N-trig investment, Microsoft is racing Apple to multi-touch - VentureBeat
Mon, Jan 12th, 2009
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The keyboard has been around since at least the 19th century. The mouse is 40 years old. Yet we still use both as the main points of interaction with a computer, even as the technology inside them grows by leaps and bounds each year. But a new $24 million investment, led by non other than Microsoft, in Israeli startup N-trig, points to a future for input that is changing.
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