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A Turning Point for Touch Screens, Says the NYT

Posted by timothy on from the they-sure-make-gps-devices-handier dept.

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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  1. Not a single mention of the DS... by distantbody · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More innovative than the iPhone and yet they didn't even mention it in the article...

  2. Re:I'm surprised that consumers want them... by Z00L00K · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And whenever there is a touch panel it will also be clogged by the dirty fingers people have.

    Just take a look at some people's keyboards where a large amount of brownish residue of unknown origin is accumulated.

    Many remotes also have an accumulation of some residue that you probably don't want to examine further, and by having a touch display you will get that residue even more visible.

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