During the building of my multitouch screen i’ve been working on my multitouch image research software also.
With this application its possible to collect images from a Flickr user, i.e your own account. And flip the images, on the back of the images the title can be found and also some relative tags. With these tags you are able to conduct further search actions. In this manner you come across images you couldn’t imagine you would come across (nice sentence, like the television show which sell magic carpet cleaners. anyway..)

Either by making a W gesture you are able to call up a rescalable keyboard and put a search on flickr. And again you can flip the resulting images. Also with the keyboard there is a possibility to make labels in order to organize your research.

Im working on a function in which you can export all the pictures with tags to an xml file for further use. Right now yo can save the canvas to a online directory.

Not all functionality is seen in this movieclip, but as soon as i am able i will make a better movie showing the features.