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Touchscreen Technologies

Throughout the past immediate century technology has progressively advanced in many ways. The way to note the level of this change is how persons are interacting with the technology with time. One of these technological advances is the invention of touch screens. A touch screen is an audio visual display that enables its user to control its digital environment through a simple or multi touch gestures using a finger(s) or a simple object such as a stylus and to react to what is displayed and even control how its displayed such as zooming. It has three main components; the touch sensor, controller and obviously a software driver that directs the operating system how to interpret the touch event information that is sent from the controller. The controller is a card that connects between the touch sensor and the device. The touch sensor is a clear glass panel with a touch responsive surface. The history of touch screens traces back to 1971 with the invention of the Elograph by Elogra