Tech | August 19, 2008 | 2 comments

Multi-Touch Evolution : Microsoft Sphere

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Multi-touch is the must have technology that has taken more than 25 years to become abuzz with popularity. In a speech called 'The Digital Decade' in 2001, Bill Gates described how touch interaction will make the keyboard obsolete. Microsoft completed the final hardware designs for 'Microsoft Surface' back in 2005. Apple beat Microsoft in the race to make a multi-touch device by announcing the iPhone in January of 2007.

The Future of multi-touch is very bright. Microsoft and Apple are developing operating systems running multi-touch, and consumers can expect to see a frenzy of multi-touch devices like the Microsoft’s Sphere http://research.microsoft.com/~benko/projects/sphere The sphere is great in particular that it allows for multiple users to be using it at the same time.

Consumers seem ready to adapt to this new multi-touch, are you ready to throw away your keyboard and mouse?





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