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Tablet Computer

As dailymail puts it: Now THAT’S a tablet computer: Samsung unveils £7,500 40-inch Full HD touchscreen table that can ‘feel’ 50 touches at once

The multi-touch technology that Apple pioneered with its iPhone is now everywhere in the modern world - but Microsoft is about to pump up the technology to a new level.

The next generation of its ‘Surface’ table is a 40-inch touchscreen that can feel 50 ‘touches’ at once - and can also ‘feel’ pens, pointers or anything else placed on the table. Screens on gizmos such as iPhone can only feel fingers.

The Full HD screen has a high-powered Windows PC built in - and is just four inches thick. The screen works by shining light upwards through the screen, which bounces back to a layer of sensors behind the screen.

It can detect not only fingers but objects on the table - whereas other touchscreen technologies are limited in what they can detect. For instance, touching an iPhone screen with a pen will have no effect.

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