Looks like HP was the first to release a touch screen PC for the general population. I was surprised. Their demo is a bit cheesy, and doesn’t give you any insight into how the interface actually works (multi-touch, or simply a touch screen). It looks like it is not much more than an over sized PDA screen, I don’t think this is what the future has in store.
The touch screen interface will start shaping how we interact with PC’s when it does the following:
- Multi-location touch sensitivity (more than 2…multiple users working off the same display)
- Pressure sensitive display (pushing harder or softer on the display has different effects…Photoshop finger painting)
- Flexible display panels (work at/on any surface in any location…solves the shoulder cramp dilemma)
- Freezable portions of the display(Lock down specific sizable parts of the display so they are not accidentally manipulated)
- Time sensitive touch response (reactions based on amounts of time hands are placed in a single location on a display)
Jeff Han is on the forefront of this type of interface. For those that haven’t seen it, he and Perceptive Pixel are getting things going. He was also on TED.
Thanks for the link to TED! Hadn’t seen the site before…now it’s my favorite interweb thing ever! Check out the amazing slam poet/artist RIVES that I discovered there.
np…it’s a great site. Glad you found RIVES there, I like it.