Touchscreen popularity fuels lots of startups
Display technologies are constantly in flux. Since Apple introduced the multitouch display for the iPhone a couple of years ago, touchscreens have become all the rage in the computer industry. Al Monro of NextWindow wrote about how Windows 7’s support for desktop touchscreens will make them not just cool, but mainstream.
Now we’re hearing from more startups that have been working for some time on solving the tough problems of making displays bright but low-power and making user interfaces much simpler and easier to control.
Touchscreens are likely to become even more mainstream thanks to the touch support built into Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system debuting on Oct. 22. Touchscreen startups and new kinds of displays are coming out in force, if the speeches at DisplaySearch’s Emerging Display Technologies conference this week are anything to go by. The big lure: touchscreen module revenues are growing from $3.6 billion in 2008 to $9 billion in 2015.
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