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Side effects of multi-touch screens on the iPhone, iPad, and other devices being studied by Arizona State researchers

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One of the main reasons Apple changed the phone industry was with their roll out of a multi-touch capacitive touch screen phone, the iPhone 2G.  The multi-touch display on the iPhone and iPad allows users to use pinch to zoom functionality, along with a whole host of other gestures.  Basically, when you see someone “flicking” their iPhone or iPad screen – thank the muti-touch display for enabling this. Other companies have quickly followed suit with multi-touch displays, and currently there [Read more]