TOUCH Issue 8: A Brief History of Touch-Screen Technology
-screen technology
1993
the first touchscreen phone released by
IBM in partnership with BellSouth
1990s
1993
Apple releases
its touchscreen PDA
2000s
2006
2010s
Jeff Han produces a new
development in touch-technology
interfaces by designing a computer
screen solely operated through touch
and it worked by using “frustrated
total internal reflection”. (though this
technology has not yet made it into
our mainstream touch devices).