One Step Closer to Minority Report

Multi Touch is some very exciting new Technology. You will be familiar with touch screen technology, this has been used in many products such as Kiosks at Cinemas and Shopping Malls and also on newer mobile phones. Multi Touch is exciting because whereas touch screen allows for a single input to get a single output (e.g. you select 2 cinema tickets, the price for 2 cinema tickets is displayed on the following screen) Multi Touch allows multiple inputs to obtain multiple outputs.

Multi Touch will be unveiled in Apple's new iPhone; soon to be the must have gadget of geeks everywhere. Multi Touch will allows users of the iPhone to effectively multi-task, touching multiple points of the iPhone's screen simultaneously to effect the behaviour of the operating system and of the software being used.

"Big deal", you might say, "So I can use my iPhone like a keyboard!"

Well before you dismiss this new technology as nothing more than a fancy touch screen, another tantalising (at this point, unconfirmed) rumour is that Apple are soon to be offering 50 inch flat screen monitors as part of their new iMac desktops.

For the majority of desktop users a 50 inch screen as well as a keyboard, mouse and base unit would be too big for their desk. That is, of course, if there were a keyboard, mouse and baseunit as well as the monitor; but what if there wasn't? What if just a 50 inch monitor was on your desktop? What if all keyboard and mouse functionality could be conducted direct onto the screen? Typing emails to your friends, resizing family photos, drawing graphs for presentations; all by using your fingertips.

But enough of the conjecture. Don't take my word for the power of Multi Touch, watch this video and prepare to be amazed.