If Microsoft is content to let us do everything with a single point of contact at a time, or at best two points (in the case of pinch and rotate) what good is 10-finger pressure-sensitive multitouch when it comes to navigating an OS or actually getting things done?
To create the point-contact transistor, Shockley's team modified the cat's whisker by placing two fine metal wires close together on the surface of a germanium crystal, turning it from a diode into a triode.