Touchscreens and Windows 7 - What You Need to Know

When I read about some of the cool features developed for touchscreens in Windows 7 I got really excited! Being able to just flick my finger across the screen to scroll through pictures instead of using the arrow button seemed pretty neat (even though I've gotten lost using my husband's i-phone like when I've expanded the screen to read the text and couldn't figure out how to get it back to the small text for easier scrolling!)

I found Jay's post on Planar Embedded talking about the advantages and current limitations to using existing touchscreens with Windows 7. Check it out for yourself - Planar Embedded: The Engineer View: Windows 7, Gestures, Embedded Touch screens, and You

Planar 17" Resistive Touchscreen LCD Chosen for POS System

eMazzanti Technologies, computer network solutions provider based in Hoboken, NJ chose Planar's PT1710MX 17" economical resistive touchscreen LCD for the Bergen County Camera POS system installation based on the Windows® 7 operating system platform. Case study link is below. Watch for the PT1710MX starting at 1.24.