In December, the county was directed by Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to scrap its touch-screen voting system, which had been plagued with problems, and to replace it with optically scanned paper ballots.
Tap the menu subset for Mobile Applications, and the Navigation System touch screen will then list the current SYNC-enabled apps found on the SYNC-paired smartphone that are ready for launch by voice command.
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Float4 Interactive ( www.float4.com), an agency from Quebec, was showing on the trade show floor how they can turn any large screen into a multi-touch interactive system.
For instance, while the Instinct is a touch-screen device, it lacks the iPhone's "multi-touch" system, which includes features that recognize multiple fingers and gestures, and allows actions like shrinking a photo by "pinching" it.
Google unveiled the first touch-screen laptops powered by its Chrome operating system, as the Internet giant made its latest foray into hardware development.
It involves Jelly Bean ramping up system resources whenever you touch the screen to navigate, such that all animations and transitions and movements on the screen are able to run at a clean 60 fps.
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And for those who also opt for the Voice-Activated Navigation System, AppLink will integrate app access and control through the system's 8-inch touch screen.
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This premium advanced universal remote gives you customization with an intuitive color touch-screen for unprecedented control of your home-entertainment system.
Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, which came out last fall, enables touch-screen controls so desktop and laptop computers work more like tablets.
Palm is slated to release its own entry into the touch-screen market later this year, along with a slick new mobile operating system.
But more recently, it has had to go back to seek fresh approval because its latest BlackBerrys, the touch-screen Z10 and keyboard-equipped Q10, run off a new operating system.
The smartphone display is copied on the larger, infotainment system screen and commands can be given either by voice, touch or traditional in car controls to enable ease of use.
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Mustang will be the first vehicle that will offer AppLink with the standard SYNC interface, as well as be integrated into the optional Voice-Activated Navigation System, providing the additional convenience of an 8-inch touch screen for control.
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The Q10 runs on the latest iteration of the BlackBerry 10 operating system, which made its debut last month on the full touch-screen Z10.
Virgin Atlantic's first A330-300 aircraft, which took flight in April, has a new entertainment system that lets flyers rate in-flight movies via the seatback touch screen.
Even before a Chrome tablet comes on the market, industry observers will likely view the touch-screen Chrome laptop as competitive with Google's other, more-successful operating system, called Android, which powers tablets and smartphones.
The center stack is dominated by the 8-inch touch screen, above a gloss-black panel with the rotary controller for the Sony sound system (there's a smaller LCD between the gauges in the instrument cluster).
The high-definition Wii U system is available in two versions in the Americas, and each comes with a touch-screen Wii U GamePad controller.
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It runs on specially adapted touch screen systems in voting booths, but it is the software that would form the basis of an online voting system too.
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