Touch screen technology

It is now almost 40 years old, but one of the familiar Office tools is already outdated, according to analysts.

Invented nearly 40 years by Dr. Douglas Engelbart while working for the Stanford Research Institute; billion of computer mice now in operation around the world.

But thanks to new technologies such as touch screens and facial recognition, it seems calculated mouseâ? S days are numbered, with analysts predicting that it could be obsolete within five years.

In the last few years has seen an explosion of new input devices, especially with the expansion of PDA and mobile phone touch screen markets where now always the number one input method.

Touch screen technology has actually been here since the 1970a?? S, although they have traditionally been expensive and usually used only in industrial applications.

Recent advances in technology mean now, touch-screen is relatively cheap and can they be found in everything from mobile phones, ATM machines, information points and even microwave ovens.

It is predicted that touch screens have become, along with other technologies such as gestural systems as soon-to-face replacement for the mouse.

The main advantage of a touch screen on the conventional mouse, keyboard and monitor layout, the screen itself acts as both input and output devices. This not only saves space but also it means that a computer be placed in places where a keyboard and mouse layout would be impractical and out or left unattended.

Touch screen technology is also often not in industrial applications means having a keyboard and mouse that can not enter contaminants such as grease, dirt and dust and clog the input device used. Touch screens can allow to be included to a computer even in the harshest environments, be placed in an industrial computer enclosures for protection against water, dust and even in hazardous areas.

Touch screen technology is changing the way we interact with computers and technology enables in areas where traditional computers would not have paid to be placed.

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