"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.
Children can see (and in some cases touch) the march of technology, from hand pumps with long brass nozzles of the 1700's to horse-drawn, coal-burning steam engines of the 1800's and, finally, a 1928 gas-powered engine from Tarrytown, N.Y., that has a 1,000 gallon-per-minute pump mounted up front.
The tx2 is the latest result of HP's 25 years of touch technology experience, which began with the introduction of the HP-150, a touch screen PC that was well ahead of its time, in 1983.
The gestures necessary to operate our new touch-sensitive generation of technology are disturbingly similar to caresses.
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 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.
BREAKTHROUGHS often beget other breakthroughs, and Apple's slick use of touch technology on its iPhone has set touch-screen makers to salivating.
Microsoft might also be able to spearhead a software standard that makes it easier for touch-enabled applications to work on the myriad kinds of touch technology.
Similarly, 032c's redesign can be seen both as a challenge to the tasteful blandness of global branding and a graphic parallel to the visual whirlwind of touch technology: the images that whiz on and off the screens of our iPhones, and the graphic sophistication of games like Mass Effect.
