'The Radical Promise of the Multi-Touch Interface', 2006
Jeff Han’s multi-touch interface demo for his 2006 TED Talk, ‘The Radical Promise of the Multi-Touch Interface’, includes many innovations that are often attributed to the iPhone, announced a year later, including pinch to zoom. He also refers to the software as “apps”, and “the interface disappears” is a direct quote. This is a great example of what I’m getting at with my previous post about how the best paradigms for a new platform are usually discovered early.