Fujifilm Touch Screen Poised to Aid Microsoft Vs. Apple
Found this by accident. Pretty interesting.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-10/fujifilm-touch-screen-poised-to-aid-microsoft-vs-apple.html
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Fujifilm is using its experience with silver to create bigger and more affordable touch-screen displays. Laptops and desktops sporting large touch-responsive panels are costly to produce because the sensors are made of a rare and brittle material called indium tin oxide, or ITO.
Putting touch in 23-inch to 27-inch displays used in all- in-one desktop designs adds as much as $180 to the cost,
More..at link.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...and therefore get the popularity and attention that I need and crave and deserve...
Other than that...you got me ??
RC
(25,592 posts)I don't see them use the touch screen feature much anymore, because something usually goes wrong.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)They can run like OVER 10 bucks!
frylock
(34,825 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Last edited Wed Oct 2, 2013, 06:43 PM - Edit history (1)
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)There's a reason why touchscreens work on handheld devices, but don't work on desktop and laptop computers - ergonomics.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html
And that's why desktop and laptop machines use the mouse instead.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Can you imagine having to clean a large screen display about every half hour just so you can see everything again without smudges?
and fingers do not beat a mouse for pinpoint accuracy.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)I went to TigerDirect and after playing with one, I thought "Well, that's pretty easy to learn"
Also thought "Is it worth 350 bucks" ??
I don't have one.