You have probably all heard about the introduction of Apple’s newest gadget: the iPad. If not (under what rock have you been living?), I will catch you up. The iPad is a kind of tablet PC, which has a multiple touch screen. You can page through websites, watch movies, write an email or run whatever application with just a click of your finger. No mouse or pencil needed. Just your hands. The magic of the touch.
Touch screens are “hot and happening”. Everywhere you look are touch screens: mobile phones, computers, the ticket machine at the railway station and the list goes on and on. Why do touch screens suddenly spread like a virus? Well, the big popularity started with the introduction of Apple’s iPhone. It used a multiple touch screen (which just means that you can use multiple fingers for a variety of touches and gestures on the screen) and that made people run to the stores. We could now touch a screen with multiple fingers! Run and tell that! Okay, all kidding aside, because this actually was a major revolution in the development of the touch screens. Just think of the fastness and how direct touch screens are. Besides, you don’t need a keyboard or a mouse anymore, so it saves quite some desk space.
Microsoft Surface goes even further: it designed a computer tucked inside a table, with off course: a touch screen. It does not only recognize finger touches, but also objects like your phone or your credit card. Just pay via your screen. But we have big, bigger, biggest. That’s what Jeff Han must have thought. A table was apparently not big enough for him, because he even invented a multi-touch wall. I repeat: A WALL!
Keyboards are so 2009. Touch screens are the future. All I still need is 100,000 dollar to buy me a multi-touch wall. Anyone who wants to contribute?
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