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The resulting resistive technology touch screen was first shown on the World's Fair at Knoxville in 1982. [20] 1982 MULTI-TOUCH CAMERA - Multi-touch technology began in 1982, when the University of Toronto's Input Research Group developed the first human-input multi-touch system, using a frosted-glass panel with a camera placed behind the glass.
Discovery Channel – "How We Invented the World": Frank Beck and Bent Stumpe describe the touch-screen as developed at CERN, and how their device has become part of everyday life. (Accessed 2/7/20) Dr Beck's autobiography, "Grandpa's Book" Dr Beck describes his early life as a refugee.
In January 2007, multi-touch technology became mainstream with the iPhone, and in its iPhone announcement Apple even stated it "invented multi touch", [41] however both the function and the term predate the announcement or patent requests, except for the area of capacitive mobile screens, which did not exist before Fingerworks/Apple's ...
Microsoft's acquisition of the technology is the subject of a separate lawsuit. [118] [119] HP releases the second multi-touch capable tablet: the HP TouchSmart tx2 series. [120] 2009 Asus announces a tablet netbook, the Eee PC T91 and T91MT, the latter with a multi-touch screen. Always Innovating announced a new tablet netbook with an ARM CPU.
1987 optical micro-electro-mechanical technology that uses a digital micromirror device. While the Digital Light Processing (DLP) imaging device was invented by Texas Instruments, the first DLP-based projector was introduced by Digital Projection Ltd in 1997.
The product quickly went on to become one of the "ancient forebearers of messaging technology," Tech Crunch editor Josh Costine argued. Stephen Case, chairman and chief executive officer of ...
General Magic is the apparent parent of all modern smartphone GUI, i.e. touch-screen based including the iPhone et al. In 2007, with the iPhone [ 42 ] and later in 2010 with the introduction of the iPad , [ 43 ] Apple popularized the post-WIMP style of interaction for multi-touch screens, with those devices considered to be milestones in the ...
Resistive touchscreen technology works well with almost any stylus-like object, and can also be operated with gloved fingers and bare fingers alike. In some circumstances, this is more desirable than a capacitive touchscreen, which needs a capacitive pointer, such as a bare finger (though some capacitive sensors can detect gloves and some gloves can work with all capacitive screens).