1. RECENT ADVANCEMENT AND APPLICATION IN TOUCHSCREEN TECHNOLOGY

2. RECENT ADVANCEMENT IN TOUCHSCREEN TECHNOLOGY Touchscreens have been available since the days of cathode- ray tubes, but the technology didn’t really catch on with consumers until mobile phone makers adopted it to solve the tiny-button problem. Now touchscreen smartphones and tablets collectively constitute the fastest-growing electronics market segment.

3. The real transition for consumers … was when Apple moved into smartphones and then tablets. Before then, consumer touchscreens didn’t work very well, because they had to operate a standard OS. But with the move to smartphones and tablets, operating systems like iOS have enabled a very touch-friendly user interface

4. Google’s Android OS—the first major competitor to Apple’s iOS—-did not support multitouch at introduction, but the latest incarnation accommodates a wide array of multitouch gestures. Some of them— including spin, thrust and slice—are unique to Android; all will work identically on any Android smartphone or touchscreen tablet. The BlackBerry Tablet OS and Windows Phone OS have similarly become touch- enabled

5. APPLICATION OF TOUCHSCREEN TECHNOLOGY The current applications of touch screen technology are ATM, Smart phones, PDA devices, Portable game consoles, Projector screens and so on. These screens are also popular in Museum displays, Room automation where as the keyboards and mice do not allow a satisfactory, intuitive, rapid, or accurate interaction by the user with the display's content.