According to Priya Ganapati's recent article in WIRED, only 3% of all PC's and notebooks have interactive touchscreens. More are coming to market, such as Sony's Vaio L Touch HD PC, Dell's all-in-one, and Lenovo's tablet PC and ThinkPad laptop. HP came out with the TouchSmart PC and touch-enabled laptops, and will be adding updated versions soon.
This is a great opportunity for developers interested in touch, multi-touch, and gesture interaction applications. I think there will be even more opportunity for web developers to create websites that are touch-enabled, or at least optimized for touch screen interaction.
Will the multi-touch web might be right around the corner?
At the moment, there is some confusion about what designers should consider when developing applications. There is not standard system of touch or gesture interaction, and researchers are still very busy figuring things out. Some companies have rushed out and patented gestures, which in my opinion, is like patenting how we breath. But that is another story.
If you are a designer or developer, you might be interested in the Touch First Microsoft Surface Developer Challenge. It is a chance to win your very own Microsoft Surface! Hurry, the deadline is October 12th.
If you want to learn more, read WIRED's Gadget Lab: "Touchscreen PC's Prompt Interface Innovations" for a good overview of what's happening in the Touch PC world.
If you are curious and would like to dig deeper into this topic, take some time to look at some of my blog-posts about multi-touch, touch screen news, innovations, and related musings:
The World Is My Interface: An Introduction (and some links)
Interactive Touch-Screen Technology, Participatory Design, and "Getting It".
Multimedia and Interaction Resources (a mega-list, work-in-progress)
Bump Top 3D Desktop on a Touch Screen: Toss Your Photos to your Facebook Icon!
Ron George's Interaction Design Toolbox
So how are people using their multi-touch all-in-ones? Medion X9613 will be released soon..
Multi-touch, multimedia, multi-modal: Fujitsu LIFEBOOK 54310 has a multitude of possibilties
Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines: "All Windows programs should be touchable!"
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Oct 9, 2009
Mar 12, 2009
Dell's All-In-One Studio One 19, With Optional Multi-touch Technology Released in Japan
Photo via Rafe Needleman/CNET
Dell's Studio One 19 All-in-One System Fits Anywhere in the Home
(BusinessWire)
Here are the specs from the press release:
- Easy multi-touch photo editing, slideshow creation, playlist compilation, notes, and even web browsing.
- Unleash creativity with You Paint finger painting software.
- Record videos and upload directly to YouTube with the touch of a finger.
- Flick to Flickr – Upload photos to Flickr to share with family and friends.
- Create a musical masterpiece with the multi-touch percussion center.
†Software is optional and works with multi-touch configurations only.
Power & performance:
- Intel® Celeron, Dual Core Celeron, Pentium Dual Core, Core 2 Duo, and Core 2 Quad Core Processor options
- Choice of nVidia GeForce 9200 or GeForce 9400 integrated graphics[i]
- Up to 4GB[ii] dual channel memory
- Up to 750GB[iii] HDD
- Slot load Optical drive
- 7-in-1 media card reader, six USB ports
- Optional integrated wireless, web camera, Blu-ray Disc™
- Optional multi-touch capability
- Optional facial recognition security (with webcam)
According to Warner Crocker, from Gottabemobile, the Studio One All-in-One will be available in the U.S. later this spring, with a starting price for the non multi-touch version around $700.00.
I'll post more information about this soon!
Update
Here are a few more pics of the Studio One, via Darren Gladstone, PC World:
Multi-touch Drum Application on the Dell Studio One 19
Extensive PC World Review:
Dell Studio One 19: All-in-One Stunner Takes Japan
Update:
After I wrote this post, I received a comment from Nicolas (see below). If you are interested in this sort of interaction, take a look at lm3lab's touchless interaction. No fingerprints!
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