[citation][nom]WyomingKnott[/nom][citation][nom]jacobdrj[/nomCan someone please explain who the demographic these are going to be marketed towards/will actually have any use for this?I get the tablet.[/citation]People with more than nine fingers? In reality, I suspect that the killer app is yet to come. After all, a one-finger touchscreen could have done everything you could do with a mouse, at one time. And that was everything that you could do with a computer! You need two for zoom, technically three but more likely five to rotate (it's more intuitive to grab-and-rotate with all five fingers of one hand rather than sticking out your pinkie as if you were drinking tea). Someone will come up with a good reason for more than five soon. How about two-person games on really, really large surfaces? If they build it, someone will come up with a use for it, and we will be left wondering how we ever lived without it.as in "Really, Grandpa? You had to click on a control in your browser and TYPE IN a scale factor to make the image larger or smaller, instead of pinch-to-zoom? How paleozoic!"Other then gratuitously snarky forum responses, I hope that you have a lovely holiday of your choice.[/citation]
The kid will be wondering what a screen is more than how you interface with it:
Non-portable multi-touch's main problem is smudges. If you need to control something quickly and accurately, voice and non-touching gesture commands, like Kinect, make the most sense, with some kind of ancillary input like a sub keyboard... To touch your screen... Just not a good idea... Holographic screens will be the ultimate evolution of these non-brain-implanted devices... But as of today... I just don't see a need for this one outside of retail space...