A Turning Point for Touch Screens, Says the NYT

The New York Times has a story up on the suddenly brisk market for touch screens and the devices which can make use of them, which it says "has grown quietly for years, both in commercial applications and in consumer devices." Besides the obvious (the iPhone, and Apple's use of multi-touch generally), the article also mentions the recent inclusion of Israeli company N-Trig's version of multi-touch technology in a Dell notebook computer, and some of the other places you can expect to see touchscreens instead of display-only ones in the near future — if the price drops quickly enough.

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bad idea

[ILuvRamen]

I think they need to figure out that NOBODY LIKES TOUCHSCREENS! You'll never, ever, ever beat the precision of an optical or laser mouse with your big fat fingers and nobody wants to clean their monitor every hour from fingerprints and smudges. With that little snafoo, I hope nobody in their right mind invests in touchscreen technology.