MICROSOFT DEVELOPING THE ALL NEW TOUCH SENSITIVE TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft plans to take multi touch to a fresh level with Side Sight, a hands-off 'touch screen' permitting users to control their doohickeys without leaving muddled fingerprints. The principal complaint about touch screens are the fingerprints - the larger the screen, the more prints there are, and it seems like no matter how often you clean the device, there's always fingerprints left over. Microsoft's Side Sight multi touch development will eradicate that issue by permitting users to control a 'touch screen' without essentially having to touch the screen. Side Sight works by mounting sensors along the length of the sides of a thingamabob, which will become aware of your finger movements up to a full 10cm away from the apparatus. A sharp jerk in the direction of the device can be employed to click, which circular motions can be employed to rotate. Microsoft presently has a working replica using an HTC Touch and sensors associated to a computer via USB, which broadcasts the signals via Bluetooth. Incorporating the sensors into the piece of equipment is the next footstep, and Microsoft asserts that one day the system could permit users to exploit multi-touch on very diminutive devices that otherwise wouldn't be talented to exploit a touch screen.