All about touch-screens and technology

Yes, this post will be talking about touch-screens and technology in design.

A touch screen is a computer display screen that is also an input device. The screens are sensitive to pressure; a user interacts with the computer by touching pictures or words on the screen.

Something that's not new but worth sharing!

The technology of touch screen and interactive design...

Let's start from this:



This video shows 4 scenes of interactive installation. Featuring interactive reactive water, smoke, reactive dice and an interaction with conway's game of life. It's the start of such display made. They thought it would sell if such displays were put in shopping centers for shoppers to interact and they see further market in such installation.



"A projection based interactive installation for Lenovo's head office showroom in North Carolina. A large body of 3D virtual water is projected along the corridor's wall. Visitors walking by are optically tracked and their motion is translated to ripples and waves along the wall."

I thought it was quite cool with the given technology 4 years back... I can walk all day along the corridor and never get bored! HAHA! :P


Eye click - http://www.eyeclick.com/

They sell interactive floors, surfaces, tables, windows...





This interactive design can be found in shopping centers now. I believe this was like 4 years ago when touch screen became so popular in designs. People like the experience of getting things done with just a finger click away and also the feedback they receive after clicking. Maybe this was why iphone came about. Hehe!

Now we experience such touch-screen interactive application in our daily life. Just take our phones for example, most of us are already carrying a smart phone!

And not to forget our newest ipad in town:
I've caught a few people carrying them on MRT already and People were staring at them! I mean literally STARE. O_O



4 years ago, touch screen was W-O-W! Everybody make a big hoo-ha over it. Now, majority are carrying them where ever they go, be it their Nintendo DS, Smart phone...etc

I wonder what is 4 years from now? ...