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Touch Screen - An electronic visual display screen that responds to the touch of human finger interaction or any other objects within the display area. Touch screen provides you with the freedom to touch the display screen and the screen itself will react to your touch and particular action will be performed, which earlier was done using some indirect system such as mouse. ATM machines, shopping malls, business ventures or your interactive presentations, each one is using this magical technology. In general, a touch screen system needs 3 major subsystems. One is the sensor, which senses the touch event by recognizing the voltage changes, second one is the controller, which converts the voltage changes into signals understandable by operating system and third one is the software program which perform the necessary action according to the touch event. The touch panel is always placed on top of the display panel. History of touch in last 5 decades: 1960s: 1965-1967: First ever touch screen, a capacitive one, invented by E.A.Johnson at the Royal Radar Establishment, UK. 1968: E.A.Johnson published a full description of touch screen technology in an article published for air traffic control. 1970s: 1971: A Touch sensor called the Elograph was developed by Doctor Sam Hurst and was patented by the University of Kentucky Research Foundation. It was non transparent. 1973: The Elograph was selected as one of the 100 most Significant New Technical Products of the year 1973 by Industrial Research. 1974: First true transparent touch screen was developed by Sam Hurst and Elographics now known as Elo TouchSystems. 1977: Elographics developed and patented a resistive touch screen technology. Also Siemens Corporation financed Elographics for development of first curved glass touch sensor interface, which became the first device to have a touch screen in its name. 1980s:

1983: The computer manufacturing company, Hewlett-Packard introduced HP-150, a home computer with touch screen technology. 1990s: 1993: Apple released a device equipped with handwriting recognition, called Newton PDA. Also IBM released the first smartphone, Simon with touch interface. 1996: Palm entered the PDA market and introduced advanced touch screen technologies with its Pilot Series. 2000s: 2002: Microsoft came with Windows XP Tablet edition to introduce itself in touch screen technology. 2007: Apple introduced the smartest of all, the iPhone with touch screen technology.

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