Now you can tune the TV, start a movie and adjust your lights to set the mood, with the touch of your finger.

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Where touch-based gaming suffers is your finger obstructing the view.

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The new Office is designed to work best on Windows 8 and is clearly designed for tablets, featuring responsiveness to Touch (including the ability to swipe your finger across the screen or pinch and zoom to read your documents and presentations), Inking, as well as new Windows 8 applications.

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With touch mice and touchpads, you have to learn new gestures, but the Touch Pen is almost as easy as using your finger.

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So with Office 2013, you can access those ribbon buttons and menu options with your finger, as long as you have a touch-screen monitor.

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Activated by a finger-swipe across an iPad or other iOS device, Galileo orients your iPhone or iPod Touch according to how you direct it, with speeds of up to 200 degrees per second.

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