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PLATO IV touch screen computer
The touch screen was being developed in the 1960's, however only until the PLATO IV did multi-touch technology come in. It was difficult to use, however at the time was a major break through. -
Tactile Array Sensor for Robotics
In 1981 there was the invention of the Tactile Array Sensor for Robotics. This was produced by Jack Rebman from the Lord Corporation. This had the ability to work out the shape of an object by different sensors. It was not actually a screen, however relayed information back to a computer. -
Flexible Machine Interface
After that there was the Flexible Machine Interface and it was the first touchscreen which allowed for a person to directly input information into a computer, without seperate components. -
Soft Machines
In the year of 1983 there was a new touchscreen created by Bell Labs and Murray Hill. These were called the Soft machines, and they were seen as a reliable and faster system for touch screen computers. -
Video Place
Myron Krueger developed a system that could actually TRACK peoples hand movements, and recognise gestures. -
Developing touchscreens
The new and developed touch screen was created now and could be incorporated into computers. It worked using transparent capactive sensors which were on top of the system. Objects within the screen could be morphed and moved around and it had the fastest response system of the time. It was developed by Bob Boie of Bell labs. -
Cassio's AT-550 watch
The first time a touch screen was developed small enough to be encorporated into a watch. It also had a calculator built in and you operated it using the touch screen monitor! -
Multi-Touch
The multi-touch tablet touch screen computer came into existence now. They could be touched on several points, and was able to record and calculate the location of each one. Being thin, it had the potential to be much more practical. -
Sensor frame
The touch screen computer was invented using the Sensor Frame. The man responsible for this was Paul McAvinney. In each four corners of the touch screen computer, there were optical sensors. These could locate up to three fingers at one time and was very accurate. -
Apple Desktop Bus
The ADB was an early USB cable, and was the first to allow multiple devices (mouse, keyboard, joystick) to be plugged in simultaneously. This was an advancement in touchscreens as it could connect two points at the same time. -
Digital Desk
A touch screen computer which then projected an image onto a tablet-like machine. It encorporated multi-touch, and was the base technology for the 'Simon' phone. -
Simon Personal Communicator Phone
BellSouth and IBM teamed up to create the first touch screen, multi-use phone. It was completely wireless, and had an early email system, a calender, an address book, a calculator, and a digital sketchbook all controlled by touch. -
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Researching and advancing
Money was invested and the boom of touch-screen began. Graspable machines, graphical point recognition and extreme gesture encorporation were all developed during this time. -
FingerWorks
John Elias and Wayne Westerman from the University of Delaware created the FingerWorks machine, a gesture-operated keyboard and control pad. -
HTC Touch Diamond
The diamond touch was a multi-touch phone which had the most advanced use of hand-gestures used so far in history. It also had sensors for the amount of pressure applied. -
Lemur
JazzMutant release the Lemur, a multi-touch screen to control and create music. It was the first to create a transparent multi-touch screen available to consumers. -
Tacta Pad
The system used devices that could capture shadows, and could change the feel of objects, as well as using new gestures, such as pinching to zoom, making it easier to use. -
iPhone
Apple was the first company to successfully release a touch-screen smartphone to the public. It was thin, user-friendly and used the pinching function to zoom in and out. -
Magic Planet
Company Global imagination create spheres that can be used to tell stories and explain buisness plans, as well as display pictures and videos. -
Microsoft's Sphere display
The first proto-type of Microsoft's sphere was revealed, and so far was able to zoom, sense multi-touch and have touch all round the globe. -
N-trig
The first touch screen computer/tablet that could both sense a finger and a stylus simultaneously, and produce pen-like lines on a monitor. -
iPad
Apple created the first tablet to use everyday computer systems. It allowed users to play sense based games, and could connect to the internet, as well as most computer uses (email ext.) -
Surface 2.0
Microsoft Surface software is used in samsung's SUR40 which used optical sensors, able to track multiple hands, as well as objects. -
My Vision
I want to advance the globe technology into a phone-like product, that also connects to weather and animal/plant populations, to connect conservationists from all over.
