It is our second practice of presentation held in 24th July, " how is your work at or near the forefront your field? how do you know? how do you map the forefront", it means I need locate my work relative to the forefront of my field. I create a magazine for both printing and digital for ipad, it is more flexible and convenient. Actually, ipad magazine is more fresh than any other digital magazine in nowadays. " If the sold out pre-order are any indication of the device's pre-launch consumer demand, it looks as though Apple has struck gold with the iPad." From the report it is obviously shown the large amounts of iPad users, the iPad is designed for customers requirement, and also function as a small business tool, large amounts of entertainment-seekers are reading e-books, e-magazines, shopping online, watching videos and playing games. According to the information, iPad magazine is absolutely at the forefront of the magazine industry and digital media. The article of my magazine is as follows:
Touch-screen has become an essential part of people’s daily life at the moment, it seems like a thing of the future. Touch-screen is widely use in mobile, tablet computer, banks and ticket machine. It has experienced a long process to get today’s success in technology. How touch screen runs your iPad or Android? Let’s elucidate these mysteries one by one now.
1948: The electronic sackbutLe Caine built the Electronic Sackbut between 1945 and 1948. It is recognized to be the first voltage-controlled synthesizer at present. The electronic sackbut is the earliest origin of touch screen technology. 1965: E.A. Johnson Touch-Screen E.A. Johnson is considered as the first inventor of touch screen, he described his work on capacitive touch screens in a short article published in 1965. He published a full description of touch screen technology for air traffic control in an article.
1971: Touch sensor--The first “touch sensor” was developed by Doctor Sam Hurst (founder of Elographics) called “Elograph”. 1972: PLATO Touch-Screen Terminal--Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations was the first generalized computer assisted instruction system, it was produced by the University Illinois and offering coursework to students, local schools and other universities.
1982: First Multi- Touch Device-- It is a touch tablet used for reading multiple points of contact owing to a video camera that can communicate with a computer.1983: HP-150--Hewlett-packard of the computer manufacturing company was introduced a home computer with touch screen technology, HP-150 was one of the world’s earliest commercialized touch screen computer.
1984: First Multi- Touch Screen--Bob Boie of Bell Labs develops the first multi-touch screen, which allows users to manipulate graphics with their fingers. 1984: Casio AT-550 Watch--“With this calculator watch, the touch screen is used as the surface on which you write, with your finger, the numbers and the operators of you calculation. This was 17 Moore’s Law ago!” (Bill Buxton’s Note)
1987: ADB (Apple Desktop Bus)--Apple Desktop Bus is a bit-serial computer bus connecting low-speed devices to computers. It was created by Steve Wozniak who had been looking for a project to work on in the mid-1980s. It is the first system that allows someone to connect two points devices at the same time. 1993: IBM Simon Personal Communicator --The IBM Simon Personal Communicator was a handheld, touch-screen cellular phone and PDA designed and engineered by International Business Machine Inc. It can be referred to as the first smart phone with touch-screen technology. 1998: Finger Works--It was a gesture recognition company known mainly for its Touch-Stream multi-touch keyboard. It designed a series of multi-touch products including the I-Gesture Pad and the Touch-Stream keyboard. 2007: iPhone--The first iPhone was launched by Steve Jobs in 2007, the user interface is built around the device’s multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard rather than a physical one. It is the first successfully smart-phone release a touch-screen into market and widely used in people’s daily life until now.
2010: iPad--It is a series of tablet computers mainly functioned on books, periodicals, movies, music, games, applications and website. With the iPad, Apple combines touch-screen technology to daily computing by providing a larger screen. 2013: Surface--Microsoft Surface is a planned series of tablet PCs designed and marketed by Microsoft. It will offer two keyboard covers for Surface: Touch cover and Type cover. The Touch cover is 3mm in thickness and has a touch-sensitive keyboard.
Reference:
1. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362227,00.asp
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