25th March 2016, 10:38 AM
I thought it obvious that it was intended to be a touch screen.
For my part, physical buttons are still needed, but if they ever invent a way to get tactile feedback from a touch screen, that'll be the day I'll happily put buttons behind me. (And no, I'm not talking haptic feedback. I'm talking specifically about being able to feel the location of virtual "screen buttons", either as some sort of neural trick fed in from electrical impulses from the screen (and yes, I've heard of such a tech being worked on), or as a moving membrane just under the screen that "bulges out" to form button shapes, and respond to being pressed in rather than just on-contact.)
For my part, physical buttons are still needed, but if they ever invent a way to get tactile feedback from a touch screen, that'll be the day I'll happily put buttons behind me. (And no, I'm not talking haptic feedback. I'm talking specifically about being able to feel the location of virtual "screen buttons", either as some sort of neural trick fed in from electrical impulses from the screen (and yes, I've heard of such a tech being worked on), or as a moving membrane just under the screen that "bulges out" to form button shapes, and respond to being pressed in rather than just on-contact.)
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)