{"id":6218,"date":"2008-01-04T11:11:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T11:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/i-want-a-multitouch-screen.html"},"modified":"2008-01-04T11:11:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T11:11:51","slug":"i-want-a-multitouch-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/i-want-a-multitouch-screen.html","title":{"rendered":"I Want a Multi-Touch Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking forward to being able to use a multi-touch screen on my monitor at work. I would even like to try it on my laptop. I spent a few minutes pretending my monitor currently has this technology built into it and I think there is potential to augment other pointing technologies like the standard desktop mice.<\/p>\n<p>I did see this <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/microsoft\/microsoft-pushes-into-communications-and-beyond.html\">technology in action<\/a> at Microsoft&#8217;s headquarters a while back and it seems to have potential. Still, the mouse seems to have more granular control and is better for a number of tasks.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that when the software is ready, Philips will be there with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/ce\/articles\/17625-philips-unveil-52-inch-multi-touch-lcd-ces.htm\">52-inch multi-touch LCD screen<\/a>. Additionally the company will be showing an 84-inch multi-touch display that is made up of four 42-inch panels joined together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking forward to being able to use a multi-touch screen on my monitor at work. I would even like to try it on my laptop. I spent a few minutes pretending my monitor currently has this technology built into it and I think there is potential to augment other pointing technologies like the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}