Enabling people to access computers and collaborate on digital content without using the traditional computer, keyboard or mouse is part of the vision of researchers at the Smart Internet Technology CRC, which launched Project Nightingale in April 2004. To demonstrate the technology, the senior research fellow used a "Diamond touch" device from Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs to move and re-size a collection of images, which can be used by many people simultaneously to share digital content such as images. Most of the software development is done under Linux and SQLite is used as the data manager. The personal server runs Linux and the devices are lean and mean.
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