InkSeine: Find Your Stuff With Ink

I got an internal email come through at the back end of last week which talked about a technology coming out of Microsoft Research called InkSeine.  When I first saw it I figured that it would be internal only but it turns out that the guys who developed it have also gone and posted videos explaining the technology on YouTube so I guess it's free game to blog about :-)

InkSeine is basically a future tablet PC application that allows richer interaction with the web and desktop applications and your tablet PC.  Gestures - things like Pen Flicks are one of the main ways that InkSeine works, from the video it seems like a very natural way of working with a tablet.  The way you can search direct from a highlighted inking is particularly cool, picking where you want the search to take place, for instance, the web or documents.

Anyway, enough rambling - here's the video:

For more info check out the Microsoft Research pages on InkSeine.