Working with his partner, Caroline Bos, the 50-year-old Amsterdam native has become one of a handful of designers whose approach, driven by a fascination with new computer-age technologies, has a touch of the prophetic.
You touched an ugly world of technology and made it beautiful".
"What makes it really special is the synergy of the touch technology of our Touch collection with the augmented reality functionality - it's the perfect way to get thousands of consumers to experience Tissot and experiment with its features," he adds.
Some industry observers, including The Wall Street Journal, have called it the "New Industrial Revolution," touched off by an advancing wave of technology with sensors and microprocessors plummeting in cost and size; cheap and easy cloud storage; and newly nimble forms of communication and software.
Artist Chris Ware, who also drew the magazine's first cover of 2013 inspired by the Newtown shooting, described this tendency as a result of the "new touch-sensitive generation of technology".
The gestures necessary to operate our new touch-sensitive generation of technology are disturbingly similar to caresses.
The highest hurdle for adoption of touch technology is the difficulty of inventing, learning and recalling a large vocabulary of novel gestures.
I believe the highest hurdle for adoption of touch technology is the difficulty of inventing, learning and recalling a large vocabulary of novel gestures.
Ahead of the impending news about the iTablet/iPad from Apple today, comes news that a French maker of touch input technology has been acquired by Tyco Electronics for $62 million upfront.
The high level of acceptability of touch screen computer use in this population supports research demonstrating the utility of touch screen technology as an efficient method of routinely collecting information in health care settings [ 16, 17, 30].
