Recently the world has seen interactive multi-touch displays grow through challenges in technology competition in the industry. They were initially invented for technology-oriented companies. Nowadays this technology has transformed itself to the invention of personal, business and institutional applications. Users testify that this technology makes public presentations, public speaking, and communication much easier and objective than before. Interactive multi-touch displays are now being used in retail environments, museums, conference centers, schools and retail environments.
History
Historically, the technology which gave birth to multi-touch display can be traced by in the 1980s. The initial intent of the inventors was to come up with a medium which designers would be allowed to manipulated computer graphics by their fingers. Years later the multi-touch technology evolved giving way to PDA touchscreens, personal computers, tablets, and smartphones. The rise of smartphones and tablets cannot be matched. It has made a non-technical consumer accustomed to interactive touch screens filled with fun and discovery.
The field is getting more exciting with the discovery of interactive touch foils through window digital thru-glass solutions to dealers, resellers, integrators and manufactures integrated to different technology displays. The new technology can integrate into the rear projection, LCD, Tabletop and thru-glass display providing users with a large interactive digital format. Present uses for this technology include medicine, engineering design, navigation, and design.
While looking at the growth of touch technology, they all come in different forms and designs. The most common touch technologies in the market include the capacitive and resistive detection, and perimeter-based technology like the ones used in optical detection and infrared. Manufacturers in the field continue to compete against each other by coming up with different designs and customer friendly features. The most common touchscreen companies include Samsung which is popular for shipping low cost all in one-touch displays the SMART signage platform inspired by Tizen and the use of Projected Capacitive technology. There is Shenzhen factories in China, Royal Display in Mumbai and British based Pro-display.
Cost
New Touch screen technology items are often less costly than the old ones. This depends on the manufacturer, amount of technology used in the product and efficiency. Conducting a simple search at the Alibaba online market store will reveal about 149,256 touchscreen products related to the name search. This shows popularity of the product to the modern order of business. A simple vertical LCD touch will go for as low as $9.96 while at times the prices can go up to $10,000 for a multi-touch interactive touchscreen product. It is estimated that the industry will be worth $27 Billion or above by 2022. The world has now embraced the touchscreen era and is affecting each part of human life. It is time the world accepts their fate and embraces the new technology. The interactive touch-screen will continue being less expensive as its technology. As many people enter the market, expenses that made the initial technology popular continue to fall over as the new generation takes over. A 42-inch multi-touch display is found in for $1500.
Breakthrough
With this breakthrough in technology, businesses, families and institutions are now able to come up with various interactive and non- interactive platforms using any screen size for Android, Windows, iPad, Samsung SSP device or Chrome.
