“Anyone expecting the traditional QWERTY keyboard and mouse to have disappeared by 2010 will be sorely disappointed – they’re still the most effective way to interact with a computer.
Other gizmos have come and gone – the Maltron Single Handed Ergonomic Keyboard, Microsoft’s Tablet PCs, Dragon Naturally Speaking and OCZ’s brain-activated Neural Impulse Actuator to name only four.
Then there’s ‘multi-touch’… Touchscreens themselves have been around since the 1980s, but could only handle one contact point at a time.
The Multi-touch concept gatecrashed the mainstream with the launch of the iPod touch and the iPhone in 2007. Microsoft also unveiled its Surface prototype in the same year.”
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