Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Touch Screen Technology & Applications

Touch screen is an input device that facilitates users to manage navigation simply by touching the display screen and the ability to exhibit and obtain information on the same screen and is ideal for wide variety of computing applications.

Touch screen also enable a display to be used as an input device instead of keyboard and mouse as the primary input device for interrelating the demonstrated content. These displays can be connected to computers or as terminals, to networks. Touch Screens not only helped current transformations in the PDA, portable game consoles and Cell-Phone Industries but also enhanced their utility.

Applications:

Touch screen has opened new and lucrative business opportunities and attracted new customers. Nowadays they are used in a wide array of application such as, point-of-sale systems, gaming, entertainment, multimedia, automobile industries, market researches, ATM’s, banks, public information displays and industrial control systems.

Touch screens are widely used in heavy industries and in other circumstances, like museum displays and room automation as keyboard and mouse do not facilitate rapid and precise interaction by the user with the displayed content.

Display manufacturers and System on Chip (SOC) manufacturers all over the world have recognized touch screen as most sought after interface component and have initiated the process of incorporating touch screen functionality into the fundamental design of their products.

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