"touch screens" news, interviews, and features

Slideshows about touch screens

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  The touch-screen grows up before our eyes

  "The Active Desk," was a touch-screen device developed in 1992 at the University of Toronto.

  The touch-screen grows up before our eyes

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News about touch screens

• Apple design chief Jony Ive rules out touchscreen Macs

  The company is exploring a more interactive MacBook with the new Touch Bar, but don't expect a fully touch-enabled Mac.

• Raspberry Pi gets its first official touchscreen display

  Almost a year after announcing its plans, the Raspberry Pi Foundation debuted its official touchscreen for DIY hardware hackers priced at $60.

• LG's ultra-thin touchscreen panels will enable lighter, thinner notebooks

  LG's AIT panels are coming to a notebook near you.

• ON THE SPOT: Samsung launches the latest Galaxy S II smartphone

  Thinnest smartphone in the world runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and provides updated capabilities

• PRODUCTS: Acer introduces latest multi-touch monitor

  The Acer T231H allows users to rotate images, flip pages, pinch and draw on the screen

• Pixel Qi shows prototype touchscreen displays

  The prototype screens appear in several mock-ups, but there is still no word on a commercial product

Features about touch screens

• Hands on: RIM BlackBerry Storm 2 smartphone

  The BlackBerry Storm 2 phone is an overall improvement from its predecessor, but SureType still feels a bit unintuitive.

• The touch-screen grows up before our eyes

  Remember when you thought your first Palm Pilot was the coolest device ever? Touch-screens have evolved light-years since then.

• What will Apple's Big Tablet cost?

  Today's scuttlebutt from Apple Insider has the Big Tablet arriving early next year