Touchscreen Breakthrough could revolutionise Education

A new multi touch screen technology has been unvieled by Jeff Han. The touch screen technology allows users to interact with the screen using multi 'pressure points' allowing the users to multitask on screen doing a number of tasks at the same time as well as allowing many users to use the touchscreen at the same time. This technology could revolutionise smart boards in classrooms as it would allow learers to do a number of tasks and work in collaboration wih other learners.

The new touch screen also comes with many applications that could potentially be used in many ways that could have a massive impact in the way learners interact with with smartboards and with ICT. Such applications include uploading and editing images and more interestingly using NASA's data images of the Earth to create an interactive planet Earth that can e accessed at the movement of a finger and creating 3D images, check out the clip below to see the touch screen in action.http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html