Apple built the iPhone's touch-sensitive screen atop an OS X foundation, presaging fresh innovations to come.
But Nik reckons the pen takes away from the whole point of having a touch-sensitive screen.
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The touch-sensitive screen is visible to all students in the room, said Pauline Carey, technology co-coordinator at the school.
Apple rival Hewlett-Packard has done well with its line of TouchSmart all-in-one consumer PCs, which supplement a mouse with a touch-sensitive screen.
Given Apple's early lead in wireless networking using the Wi-Fi standard, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to see Apple creating what is essentially a touch-sensitive screen that can display the contents of any computer it is connected to.
The Chromebook Pixel, available for order on the Google Play store and shipping in April, features a 12.85-inch touch-sensitive Gorilla Glass screen.
The Razer Edge tablet in its many forms is designed with ultra-precise accelerometers and a highly-sensitive, multi-touch screen.
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An easy-to-use, touch-sensitive, 3.0-inch high resolution LCD screen is powered by the touch of a finger to focus on subjects and activate the shutter.
Sensing this shift, Nintendo is gearing up for their newest installment, the Wii U due out next year, which has a touch screen motion-sensitive controller.
Apple's iPhone, launched in June, is a mobile phone with a gesture-sensitive multi-touch screen.
It has a built-in 3.2-inch touch-sensitive liquid crystal display (LCD) screen that will let you edit and manipulate the photo image before printing.
The only time we noticed a bit of pause was when we tapped the touch-sensitive buttons lining the bottom of the 4-inch screen (these include menu, home and back, in that order).
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