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A pint of wine to a vintner is as a pippin to a costermonger
Nanotouch takes lead from Cheeky Girls
SOFTWARE GIANT MICROSOFT and boffins from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany have worked out a way of shrinking touch screens by allowing you to touch their bottoms - the machines not the boffins.
One of the problems with touch screens is that when they get small the user's fingers block most of the viewable area. However the nanotouch gear that Vole has come up with allows a touch-screen device to be controlled from its backside.
The technology could take a year or two to get in the shops. It has been predicted a mobile phone using the technology could be around in about five years and will probably end up shacking up a Lib Dem politician. µ
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Well, that solves two of the three problems with touchscreens: that your finger obscures what you’re trying to point at, and the crap off your skin builds up deposits on the display surface.
There’s still the third problem: your finger is so fat compared to the things you’re trying to point to. How are they going to solve that?
well the 3rd step is to use ur penis lawrence, it fits the small flimsy profile to point at miniscule objects :D
They solved the finger obstruction problem years ago. I suppose you could utilize that pinky nail for something other than eroding the cartilage in your nose.
lol @ roflcopter...