iPhone OS on a touchscreen monitor, multi-touch and all

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

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Now this is the hack of the weekend or the hoax of the weekend. Some intrepid hackers have run what appears to be iPhone OS 2.x on a “multi-touch” monitor with accelerometer support. I’ve found a few examples of monitors that could potentially pull this off but I haven’t been able to pin down a model number. However, because iPhone OS is basically a Linux Mach kernel it should be bootable on Intel hardware – at least in an emulator – all of this is feasible.

We’ll do a little digging but as it stands it’s an impressive hack.

UPDATE – It looks like it comes from Dreamfield.se, a Swedish design firm. They say it’s from their “labs” but they’re of an artistic bent.

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