Touch Screen Conversion for Traditional Devices
Users are increasingly leaning towards touch screen operations as opposed to key boards these days. In fact, most of the devices from the Apple stables use touch screen commands and operations. Other companies have also been making smart-phones with touch screens. However, until now the system always came embedded in the gadget itself. With the launch of a new multi touch skin, there is now a way to convert traditional devices into touch screen devices.
The innovative product christened the multi-touch skin has been created by Portuguese company Displax. This skin is simply a thin polymer film, which has thin wires in it that can sense touch and pass on the information to the computer. It can be used on a screen as small as 7 inches to 3 meters diagonally. Further, it can sense multiple touches at the same time, which means that multiple users can be supported simultaneously. The multi touch skin can register and process close to 16 touches on a screen which is 50 inches wide.
This skin can be affixed on any flat surface. This means that it can be used on many traditional devices from a phone to an LCD screen. Going by market trends it certainly seems likely that the existing popularity of touch screen operations will make this product hugely successful and popular. Surveys show that people prefer to use touch screen as compared to old key boards. With this product, they need not even spend substantial amounts in buying a touch screen device.
A useful addition to any hand-held mobile device, and going by trends something that will catch on and only add to the growing popularity of using mobile broadband. For a current range of laptop add-ons (click dongle) and mobile broadband info, one can refer to this comparison table for products.
