News - LG unveils "Touch 10" monitor optimised for Windows 8

[HEXUS]

Allows you to use all 10 fingers simultaneously!

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[saj1977]

You also get 10 smudges on the screen simultaneously.

IMHO the PC monitor should not be a touchscreen.

Keeping phone/ipad screens clean is just about bearable.

[this_is_gav]

I only have eight fingers.

[saj1977]

I only have eight fingers.

Don't worry your not alone, i'm sure LG will realise and create "Touch 8" model for us freaks with eight fingers.

[Percy1983]

Don't want.

It annoyed me on my phone, but then I can put in in the palm of one hand and rub the smudges away with the other, a monitor wouldn't be quite so easy.

[Jonj1611]

That's definitely going to get uncomfortable using that, will quickly lose its appeal for anyone that buys one.

[jnutt]

Having opposable thumbs is becoming a novelty.

[Roobubba]

On a touchscreen, I get it. On a PC monitor? No thanks! I don't want to have those pesky aliens in Natural Selection 2 obscured by all those mucky fingerprints I've left behind...!

In a PC environment, I cannot see one application for using touch where a mouse and keyboard wouldn't do the job better, except for artwork - for which good solutions already exist and they don't involve stretching out to the screen in front of you.

[BongoJoe]

My 18 month old daughter firmly believes that I already own a touch screen desktop monitor. That's why it is constantly covered in biscuit crumbs, drool and "unidentified source smear".

[wasabi]

The plain uselessness of this device illustrates exactly why Metro blows. It is shameful that PC users are being pushed towards interacting with the device in the same way i-toy posers do.

[ladcrooks]

You also get 10 smudges on the screen simultaneously.

IMHO the PC monitor should not be a touchscreen.

Keeping phone/ipad screens clean is just about bearable.

ha! ha! ha! - totally agree with you, made this point in another thread!

[Saracen]

I have no objection to a monitor that supports touch, or to an OS that does, and there are applications that could benefit from it. But, and it's a significant "but", for me it absolutely must not be at either significant extra cost, or (and this is most important) compromise the quality of the monitor.

Right now, most of the things most of us do on desktop PCs aren't ideally suited to a touch interface. Well, hardly surprising, is it, seeing as we don't currently have that option and haven't had to any real extent in the history of desktop computing. But that doesn't mean that a lot of things can't be designed in such a way they they do suit.

There is, for instance, a reason why most supermarkets now have checkouts with touch screens whereas a few years ago, it was all done with a keyboard, even if it did involve a large number of dedicated function buttons.

I can certainly think of ways that some applications could be redesigned to take advantage of touch screen, not least a lot of WP work, or typing a post like this one. Combine a word processor designed for touch with an effective voice recognition capability and you have a tool that would potentially be very powerful for a lot of people. And I already use voice recognition for a lot of dictation work. Why? Because my typing isn't what it might be, and because dictation is far less distracting to the main task in hand, that being getting my thought stream down into words, than typing is.

After all's said and done, all I really care about is whether the process, the means of getting the job done, works better, or not. If it's a touch screen and it does result in a smoother work-flow, like it does in checkouts, so be it.

After all, I remember playing with a mouse when they first came out, which was quite a while before computers (as opposed to terminals on a mainframe) were even common in the office, let alone the home. And it felt alien, for a while. I thought, initially, it was awkward, unintuitive and would never catch on, and what was wrong with function keys and a KB?

And look what happened there.

I'll reserve judgement on touch screens on a desktop, and on many desktop functions, until we see what application support, and design changes, follows, and that'll take a while. It'll probably never suit all desktop functions. Gaming will probably never really suit touchscreens, and to be honest, many games don't ideally suit keyboard or even standard mice either. Some desktop uses are inherently suited to keyboards, and that may never change. But I rather suspect we'll all loo0k back in a few years, take touch for granted and wonder why we were bothered about it. What we have right now is a textbook demonstration of inertia, and resistance to the possibility of change.

[aidanjt]

After all, I remember playing with a mouse when they first came out, which was quite a while before computers (as opposed to terminals on a mainframe) were even common in the office, let alone the home. And it felt alien, for a while. I thought, initially, it was awkward, unintuitive and would never catch on, and what was wrong with function keys and a KB?

I still find text terminals a lot more efficient for a number of tasks. And they were well before my time.

[hesham1516]

Been waiting for this since the early windows 8 demonstration stuff, had a feeling it would start to have a huge impact on monitors and how we use PCs despite not being a huge touchscreen fan. Displays with edge to edge glass allow for a much cleaner look and the ability to use touch screen on occasion. Hopefully someone comes out with a 27" 2560x1440 panel similar to this but with the performance that goes with those types of monitors too. Betting they would look fantastic side by side and the edge to edge allows for easier swipes from the edge.

[Platinum]

Who the hell has there monitor close enough that they can touch it?