Touchscreen 17&#8221; Powerbook!

Thanks to the folks at Troll Touch, you can deck out your 17” Titanium (12” and 15” models, plus 14” iBooks, soon to follow) with a touchscreen. The device fits over your Powerbook screen when in operation and connects via USB. Use Troll Touch software to calibrate the SlipCOVER screen, and away you go.

SlipCOVERs for 12” iBooks are already available. More information on the whole product line available from the Troll Touch web site.

I love the idea. No word on pricing, though, from looking at the web site - could be too rich for my blood. What I would really crave even more than a touchscreen is to turn my Powerbook screen into a scanner. Just hold a document or photo up to to the screen and voila. I heard some buzz that a device like this may be under development - anybody seen this?

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Thanks to the folks at Troll Touch, you can deck out your 17” Titanium (12” and 15” models, plus 14” iBooks,...

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Phil

TOUCH SCREENS I WANT ONE!!! Yes this is the future. I have worked with Kiosks, and touch interface is the most intuitive and customizable digital interface available. This will be a major advantage if Apple launches a touch sensitive powerbook soon with the G5 chip. Yet, they (at apple) seem to let the PC market fumble with the new stuff and then a year later they perfect it.

January 03 2005 at 8:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

barb dybwad

Bill, I say the same thing every day. :) It makes sense that more devices should have touch screens - it's such an intuitive human gesture. 'Hands-on' devices of the future will likely seem more like extensions of our bodies/minds instead of boxes of metal and circuits. I think the iPod is a step towards that ideal - the clickwheel is a control device based on touch that, kinesthically, does exactly what you expect it to without even having an awareness of that expectation. I *definitely* want that same level of integration with my laptop.

December 08 2004 at 1:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bill

This should be a standard mac feature. I mean we have inkwell? We pioneered bluetooth, usb, firewire. This would totally rock. all touch interfaces. built in to everything. Damn. I can't wait for the future.

December 07 2004 at 5:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply