For the Virgin Mary, he had to look farther afield to find a suitable model, choosing a woman already widely worshipped: the Austrian movie star Hansi Knoteck.
"Traditionally tablet and phone devices have needed to make a design compromise: choosing between multi-touch, capacitive glass that is responsive to fingertip gestures, or using a resistive display more suitable for stylus input that requires sacrifices in contrast, wear and tear, and need for calibration, " Gittleman said.