Saturday, February 11, 2006
The touch screens of the future
The stylus for Palm allows us to make our tap on the screen with great precision. But it is increasingly fashionable to design programs with extra-large buttons, to enable them to navigate by using our finger. For example, this skin for Pocket Tunes, or the new program interface navigation Via Michelin.
The future of the interfaces is in touch screens. But this project takes a step further by allowing more than one entry simultaneously. This means that we can play in two or more points at a time on the screen, and the device recognizes without problems. To understand it better, have a video demonstration. Apart from the great opportunities that we see, offers this new technology, the video is spectacular because the examples used seem science fiction, the style Minority Report.
Some of the concepts that appear are revealing. How easily allows you to navigate a sort of Google Maps, the zoom control with your fingers. Or the virtual keyboard, so we know which users of Palm. The program disjockey kind in which we control the spin of the "virtual disks" can be great in a live performance.
How much will have to wait to see this technology implemented in our computers? Well it might not so much: in parallel with this project, Apple is working on the same topic, as discussed with the intention of implementing it on their iPods with a screen, and quen know if later in their other teams.
By: Mark Gonzalez Troyes in Palm News
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