The Touchscreen monitor is a device that has tapped the curiosity of adults and young children alike. Touchscreen monitors are no longer confined to bar video games as novelty items. Today, they can be found in many stores as part of cash registers, in car dashboards and on many portable computers. With the growing popularity of touch screen enabled Palm Pilots and other PDAs, many people even have one in his or her pocket at all times.

Te touch screen monitor has truly grasped the attention of the young and the old simultaneously. There is no place where we do not come across these ubiquitous little devices – in banks, ATM, shopping malls, airports and railway stations. They are useful and yet unobtrusive and you can just jab the touch screens to order a cup of coffee or draw some money from a bank account.

There are so many uses for touch screen monitors that they are commonly seen in all public places. One can use a touch screen in his CarPC, to help play music or operate the cash register. The end uses are so large that there is a huge variety of models and sizes available that will suit our specific needs. There are different technologies behind touch screen monitors such as resistive touchscreens, capacitive systems, infrared and surface acoustic wave technology. The types of touchscreen differs in their efficiency at reading a touch and the clarity of the monitor. Some of the systems are also more susceptible to scratches and contaminants.

Touch screen monitors are very reliable and accurate devices that have become relatively cheap over a period of time. They offer highly legible text, clear resolution; razor sharp pictures and a brightness exceeding 500 cd/m2.Hi end models carry a lot of extra features too.

The most clearly seen benefit of a touch screen is that it behaves as input as well as output mechanism The three main pieces of hardware in a touch screen – the monitor, mouse and the keyboard are combined into one single unit. This is done by using a gui or guided user interface within the system.

The touch screen monitor is easily made to function by hand and its 5 wire touch sensitive panel is hardly affected by wetness or dirt. In fact the monitor can be pressed at least 3 million times on any part of the screen without losing any speed of reaction.

Basically there are two kinds of touch screen – one comes integral with the system, the other is an add-on. Both are quite affordable and offer excellent navigability to the user.

In simple words, the touch screen is an important part of the hardware which is added on to the monitor. It is precisely a thin piece of transparent laminated sheet stuck on to the monitor and securely wired to the computer system. Once the touch screen is plugged id and the appropriate software drivers are run it begins to operate normally.

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