In the past, homes of the future were all about sliding doors and friendly servitor robots but today's predictions link technology with sustainability as much as with convenience.
It has been an indispensable fixture of computing for as long as most people can remember. But sentences beginning with the words "click on" and "click and drag" may not be part of future office parlance as the humble computer mouse comes under threat from new touch-screen technology which is being rolled out by the major players in the computer industry. It promises to be the biggest change to personal computing in a quarter of a century.
Business 2.0: 8 cool new touchscreensupdated: Wed Apr 04 2007 14:23:00
The technology isn't anything new, but suddenly there's a deluge of touchscreen devices. Can the upcoming iPhone help U.S. consumers kick their keyboard habit?
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