Troll Touch announces 27-inch touchscreen Cinema Displays
Even if Apple CEO Steve Jobs isn't interested (for now at least) in giving his followers a touchscreen desktop computing experience, Troll Touch is. The company has added touchscreen monitors to its existing lineup with a pair of options based on the latest 27-inch LED-backlit Cinema Display. Troll Touch is offering an integrated display, where the front glass is replaced with an analog resistive panel, or a user installable option, where the same resistive panel can be applied to an existing display and removed when not needed. Both options come with calibration and driver software.
The integrated unit is priced at US$2,499, and the user installable SlipCover version is $1,099. If you already have a 27-inch display, you can ship it to Troll Tech, and they will install the integrated touch panel for $1,499. Troll Tech also offers touch-enabled versions of other Apple and Dell displays as well as iMacs and plastic MacBooks.
Watching the video in the second half of the post, we'd have to agree with Jobs that a desktop touchscreen just doesn't really make much sense, especially for extended use. A vertical touch panel, especially one this large, would be very fatiguing. The only place we see this system being useful is for installation into a kiosk.
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a Kinect monitor would be even more fun. Gosh! I'm not greedy, see Microsoft Kinect for Xbox! :D
November 26 2010 at 11:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis would be perfect for VJ'ing! No more controllers and lots of space for triggers. I would buy.
October 28 2010 at 5:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply> Troll Touch
> Vertical touchscreen
> Troll
You can say that again. Anyone buying this is getting trolled out of $2,500
>their face and response when you buy this, and rage
U mad?
I doubt Apple will ever make an iPad bigger than 14". Apple has no doubt tested many different screen sizes during iPad development. And while "Gorilla Arm" syndrome is minimized if you use a medium-to-large touchscreen in your lap, there is still probably an upper limit to the size of an easily usable iPad form factor device.
For typing or pinching, a 15" screen is fine. But the sheer size means that tap targets will be farther apart than on the 9.7" iPad. And that means more arm motion to navigate between those tap targets. And that means more fatigue.
Factor in the added weight and cost of a large touchscreen, and "big screen" iPads seem to be a bad idea (to me, anyway.) That explains why Apple thinks there is room for the MacBook Air in their product lineup.
Terrible, terrible idea for anything but quick "kiosk" tasks. There's a term for "sore arm due to extended use of a vertical touch screen": Gorilla Arm.
"Gorilla Arm" has its own paragraph in Wikipedia's definition of "touchscreen": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen
It would be potentially awesome if you put it on a VESA arm and could rotate it down onto your desk while you're working on it, but at that point it'd be ridiculously expensive and you might as well get a Cintiq.
October 28 2010 at 1:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI totally agree , this looks like the most annoying thing in the world . And that they don't even have the screen tilted is even sillier.
October 28 2010 at 12:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhy would the screen be tilted.. it's not an iPad. It's a monitor. I would love to have more interaction with the screen vs using only a mouse. I know there are some other alternatives but I think using my hands would be a better experience when navigating the internet. Combine this with the 3D stuff and it could be amazing. I am not liking the virtual keyboard idea obviously but in many ways this could really be huge leap if done right imo.
October 28 2010 at 1:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHave you ever seen a vertical ATM?
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