Computing with Half a Computer!!!

I say you'd definitely agree, if i said that humans are the most cleverest and capable beings on the surface of the earth. Now!, even being so clever, we become invalids or handicaps without our senses of perception, it may be Sight, Touch, Smell, Hear or Taste, without which, it becomes very difficult for our survival. Imagine! how a lesser immortal, a mere computer system would be able to survive, without its appendages, which it used as its perceptory receptors? yes! o'course!, I'm talking about the mouse and the keyboard, the primary and most ubiquitous input devices of a computer, which are somewhat mandatory for a computer till date.

Well, the future certainly dictates a different predicament for the computer, as Scientists are making computing devices of Next Generation, Small, Compact and trendy & without wire, i.e. to say without the appendages, without both, the mouse and the keyboard. Now! just imagine, what is the MAGIC behind, what is the technology, which would make this transition a pleasure, instead of a shock...?

Well the underlying magic is touchscreen technology, also known as 'Haptic Technology". Technology has made our life easier by providing us with so many innovative solutions. Touchscreen is such one solution.

The essence of touchscreen lies in the Haptic technology.

Haptic technology is driven by the vibrations, or touch and feel of the human. This technology has many wider applications and has seen its advent already in many. It has seen its advents in the computer science and in the applications like screens, Remote control or displays of cellular devices.

This technology empowers you to perform the desired activity on your screen via a touch. It allows you to enter into the virtual world of computer icons by the feel of your touch on the screen lying in front of you. It has added new experience to the navigation and going through the menus to search what lies inside. The application of this technology to the cellular devices has reinvented this field and it is just the one field where it has found its application.

The other major application of this technology is in the field of medicines and clinical researches. It is helpful to provide the students with simulators where they can perform their practical practices.

Everything is virtualized with a pinch of reality in every application.

In case the student is at wrong with some diagnosis practice, the simulator will response in that way. The other area where the analysts seek its wide application is the e-commerce. They are positive about the fact that with in some years the consumers who prefer online shopping will be able to judge the fabric by feeling it via computer using the haptic technology. They are optimistic about the fact that this advent will boost the consumer’s confidence and will broaden the horizons for online experience.

The initial glitches this technology may face is the slow response of the systems, the touch or the instruction needs to be parsed by the system, decoded and understood by the system, that would be an overhead while using the technology.

Imagine arcade gaming where split second clicks are necessary for an enjoyable
gaming experience, the drag or delay in the reception of the clicks would limit
the gaming experience.

Also, another fault point might be when there needs to be a separation of the intended, instructional touch to the undesired, accidental ones while providing inputs. The system has to filter the exact touches and understand and be intelligent enough to not take in the accidental ones.

However this system may grow, fast or slow, this would no doubt revolutionalize the technology sphere, where in there would be compact sophisticated systems, which may have 2D or even 3D, multi touch deciphering capabilities which would make the computing experience much more delightful. it may find its uses in various other sections of the industry which has not even been visualized till date.

The rate at which the technology is growing, there is ample amount of
scope of such growth and we are always ready to view and be the change...

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