Are Touchscreens the Future?

In the future, will you still be using a keyboard and mouse?

Maybe not.

After all, you may already use a touchscreen on your PDA or laptop, right?
Personally, I’ll never forget seeing a buddy of mine that worked as an artist use a pressure-sensitive pad to create artwork on a screen. I visited him in his office in New York almost ten years ago.  He was quickly switching between pen, pencil, charcoal, different colors, etc.  He could press harder or lighter and affect the way it would look on his screen. He even had three monitors running at one time.  Which at the time was pretty incredible.

I still think touch screens and digital input is amazing.  It seems so much more intuitive than a QWERTY keyboard and a mouse with two buttons.

Let’s face it, the greatest invention in how we interact with computers in the past ten years has been the little scroll wheel on the top of the mouse.

But today, my issue of Fast Company came in and I saw something that blew my mind. Jefferson Han is an engineer that showcased the latest in touch screens at the recent Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) Conference. The conference included thinkers and doers such as Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and others.

Jefferson’s presentation actually got oohs and ahs from this elite crowd. By the end, he was basking in the rock-star applause, according to the article.

Check out the video below.  You’ll see what he is doing with touch screens and I’m sure your imagination will run wild with the possibilities. I’ve watched it three times now and still love it.

Click here for the video and here for the article from Fast Company to learn more.

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