WOF: Will touch replace keyboards and mice?

I see the touchscreen market increasing in the future as it becomes more practical and feasible to incorporate it into many more devices. I don't think it's quite in the gimmicky status that, say, 3D televisions are in right now. Touch makes sense and now that the technology has developed, I'd venture to say that it's here to stay.

If it does, they have an extremely long time before that happens. A lot of people, including myself, cannot sit close enough to their monitor(s) to even consider a touch screen because of poor eyesight.

On mobile devices I see this happening much sooner, though I doubt any gamers will give up the keyboard and mouse on their rig. That's like asking a tailor/seamstress to give up their sewing machine.

For the people that currently have touch enabled desktops, I guarantee they just use it as a nifty gimmick to show off to their friends. The tech is still too infantile to be worthy of many specialist uses, such as photoshop, illustrator, or autocad, though maybe a DJ might find it useful.

Haven't we been "Touching" all along?
Thinking a different way one could argue that advancing touch technology is at best futile.
Touch is slow, inefficient, and wasteful on more than one level.
Input via brain waves or equivalent signals would have limitless applications and in practice require less material to manufacture.
Also, we only have a set number of physical input options yet brain power is abundantly infinite.
Mike

Nope. No, no, no....touch screens have their niche and it isn't mainstream computer usage. At the airport check in, at a bank doing a simple withdrawal, buying a movie ticket, scrolling through a device that has no keyboard like an iPhone - that's all fine. But trying to word process a document? Or do a little PhotoShop editing? How about gaming? I can just see myself punching the crap out of my screen trying to kill something.

For mainstream computer usage, I see brain waves controlling PC functions happening before touch screens take over as the standard.

Laser keyboards never really took off so I have a hard time believing that touch screens will replace keyboards entirely. I like touchscreens for smaller devices and screens, otherwise I'm clutching onto my keyboard and mouse (well trackball) for the foreseeable future.

Why no one haven't yet thought of 'touch keyboard' to start with? I think it can be good idea provided the product works and is qualitatively a better experience.

on keyboard you CAN hold the button but not press it,

so in touch keyboard the problem is, if you put your finger on it, it presses that button - and thats crap ! I wont ever keep my hand in air just to wait to press something!

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ith the speed the things are evolving - LOOK! We are using Keyboards for a long time now....

couldnt we somehow put on glasses that somehow, transfer us into our computers? and we control it all with our mind? mabe it will be more stressfull lifestile, but we are getting lazy

Touch screen tech will never replace traditional keyboards, it may replace mice. The system reason is that humans need the tactile response from keyboards to touch type. Try touch typing on a screen. It doesn't work. You can't look away and be sure you've hit the right key(s).

For interactive experiences touch is already replacing traditional inputs and this is only going to get better with information overlays from glasses or maybe even contact lenses. You can see the seeds of this technology being experimented with today.

Very impressive vision but I don't think this will be reached at 2019. What about cost to implement, and cost to buy these touch devices? We better take care of climate changes in the world and help poverty in Africa and other places. All this is nice if everyone is using it.

How comfortable is typing going to be on a vertical screen exactly! unless this involves a separate device that sits on your desk and is more tactile than a keyboard then don't see this technology replacing keyboard and mouse for anything other than menu usage.

As for a touch screen keyboard, I do not think I would be a fan. I have tried a lot of different keyboards, and I have noticed that the thinner the keys get, and less feedback there is, like the new apple keyboards for example, the slower and less accurately I can type. I even have done some typing tests to verify this. On my 11 year old Microsoft keyboard with large and very clicky keys, I can type around 80 words a minute with only 1-3 mistakes. On the thin apple keyboards I can do about 75, but with 8 mistakes, and on my even smaller and thinner netbook keyboard, only about 70 words with a lot of mistakes. (Used this: http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com/)A touch screen would only make this problem much worse.

Not until holodecks are invented.

mccartercar is right.... if we use touch, we could be leaving our finger prints in the screen.. lolz..

I'll never surrender my mouse. They will have to pry it from my cold dead fingers.

Well, for one thing, touch screen computers have existed for a long time. I remember back before 2000 when my father had a touch screen Toughbook for work.

Personally, I DO NOT see touch screens replacing mouse and keyboard. First, there is no way you can play video games with a touch screen. And I'm talking about real games such as Modern Warfare, Bad Company, etc., not solitaire or other small games. Second, I HATE touch screens. One of my biggest pet peeves is fingerprints on electronic devices. I'm still in college, and I see several people in my classes with touch screen computers. They NEVER use a stylus (even though it has higher accuracy and won't damage the screen unless they're *****s) and their monitor is completely covered with greasy fingerprints.

I will never switch over to a completely touch screen environment. I will continue to use the "outdated" mouse and keyboard.