Enterprises were willing to deploy iPads because the CEO and departments were screaming for it, and nothing in the Windows world came close to the thin, light, 10 hour battery life andresponsive iPads.
The capacitive display was extremely responsive to our light finger taps and familiar multitouch gestures like two finger scrolling and pinching to zoom.
Researchers at the University of Arizona and Nitto Denko Technical used a blend of electrically responsive light-scattering polymers to make a holographic videoconferencing system.