Touch Screen without a Touchable Screen

[Brad Jones]

A larger clickpad could make it possible to use multi-touch without having a multi-touch screen. This embedded video below shows the Synaptics ClickPad experience on Windows 8. In many scenarios, this approach makes a lot more sense than touching the screen itself. For example, I have to stretch to touch my screen. My keyboard, is "at my finger tips!"



You get a good view of the multi-touch capability about a minute and 15 seconds into the video when they draw with five fingers at once. At about 2 minutes and 28 seconds, you see two images being manipulated at the same time with multi-touch as well.



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[Khiem]

Sad, Windows 8 is only used for touchpads, hope MS will create similar OS for normal PC too, it'll be a good source which I would spend 24 hours to learn

[Brad Jones]

I believe Microsoft is making the case that things such as touch and connectivity will be as predominant as something such as the mouse over the past decade. A mouse wasn't a standard feature 25+ years ago....