Multi Touch Technology

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Multi-Touch technology allows users to interact with their devices in multiple ways, by expanding the number of interface options, rather than simply swipe and tap.Multi-Touch allows for zooming, scrolling, selecting, and more. It is designed to provide touch-screen interfaces with the same sort of flexibility and usability that a traditional mouse and keyboard provide.It works with Track Pads (or Touchpad’s) and touch-screen interfaces, like those found on laptops, smartphones, and tablets.
Multi-touch is technology that enables a surface to recognize the presence of more than one or more than two points of contact with the surface. The origins of multitouch began at CERN, MIT, University of Toronto, Carnegie Mellon University and Bell Labs. The term "multi-touch" was popularized in 2007 by Apple.
Multi-Touch technology allows users to swipe, scroll, select, zoom in, zoom out, and move a cursor about. In the future, you may be able to manipulate objects that were once static and 2D in a 3D realm. Alternatively, you may be able to rotate objects, flip them over or manipulate them in other ways, through a simple hand gesture. The hardware is there – all that's left is for the technology to ignite the minds of inventors around the world to create clever new uses.
Working of multitouch
The multi-touch technology works with touch-screen and TrackPad interfaces. Both of these surfaces are able to measure and respond to pressure through the use of a pressure-sensitive panel carrying an electrical charge. Where a pressure is applied, the electrical charge is disrupted, which is read by the computer as an input. This input is then translated to a corresponding motion or function by the device's software. Multi-Touch technology allows these panels to read and interpret multiple pressure points, including gestures, at the same time.
It works by using a grid that makes it possible for the device to understand where the screen is being touched. There are high levels of accuracy because it can identify a number of intersection points. A multi touch screen that has multi touch awareness will come with a higher level of functionality when compared with that of a single touch screen. One example of how multi-touch works is the punch to zoom that comes with many devices.
Examples of Multi-Touch
Examples of Multi-Touch technology in practice include smartphones, tablets, touch tables and walls (like those found in the museum) and laptops with TrackPads.