Touch Me!

Okey! So every single mobile phone company now tends to create at least one touch screen phone. Everybody is craving for a macbook tablet or tend to turn their notebooks touch screen.

Microsoft has revealed a touch screen table which "does cool stuff" and so on.

Well, is the future touch screen compatible?

Are peolpe ready to abandon their "primitive habits" and start touching more and click less or they are going to miss all the blipity blop keystrokes?

I guess time will tell...

Anyhow, not all touch screens work the same way, meaning that different kind of screens need different kind of "touch" to work. ..hmmm..

Resistive Touchscreens are the most common ones. Cheap to build but hard to work with. When you touch the screen, two thin layers above the actual screen get in contant at the point of pressure, giving the disired effect.

Capacitative touch screens. iPhone comes to mind. You dont need to press anything here, you gently touch and let your body's electrical charge do its thing! No stylous needed (or working).

Infared touch sensing is a complex touch screen technology seen on microsoft's surface which works with infared cameras beneath the actual surface able to tell when you place an object or make gestures.

After all these one song comes to mind..