But touching implies being touched simultaneously.
Matthew Olearczyk, a program manager with the Electric Power Research Institute, explains that typically a squirrel will cause a blackout by scampering across electrical equipment and touching simultaneously both an energized component, like one of the cylindrical transformers at the top of a utility pole, and a grounded piece of equipment.
In portraying black members of the police department ignoring legitimate evidence to protect a prominent member of Baltimore's African American community, "Blood Ties" touches simultaneously on themes of police misconduct and racism, however inadvertent, from the characters of Pembleton and Gee.
In the synchronous condition, the participants and the artificial body were touched simultaneously at corresponding locations.
Surface computing recognizes many points of contact simultaneously, not just from one finger like a typical touch-screen, but up to dozens of items at once.
The main component here is the 52-inch multi-touch "interactive" LCD display with full HD resolution that supports up to 10 points of contact simultaneously.
A jumping rabbit stretches forward and lands on its forefeet; generally, both forefeet do not touch ground simultaneously, however.
Similarly when Barton surprised her half-naked, Janney silently showed us Margaret's longing for her husband's touch and, simultaneously, her bitter knowledge that her marriage could be faked no more.
The company is perhaps best known for the 82-inch multitouch display that Microsoft demoed at MWC. Jeff Han, Perceptive Pixel founder and new Microsoft employee, says the display is the "world's largest true multitouch and stylus display," capable of supporting "hundreds of touch inputs simultaneously".
NEC says that the X-info Table supports up to ten touch points simultaneously.
