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Since iPhone became huge, touchscreen devices are everywhere and people are no longer surprise to see them anymore.  Albeit, people are still wondering how these touchscreen devices are able to allow them to interact with the devices themselves by touching, but the magic behind the technology is only a curiosity and not a priority.  Using the devices themselves in magical ways is more of a priority than anything else for most people.  Nonetheless, there are folks out there who are more curious of how the magic of touchscreen devices actually works.  Obviously, to some people, the magic is easy to understand and replicate, but to some people it’s a black magic which cannot be easily cracked.  Perhaps, I’m one of those folks who considers the magic behind touchscreen devices a black magic which cannot be easily cracked.  Luckily, revisiting a Maximum PC’s older article “Build Your Own Multitouch Surface Computer,” even the black magic of touchscreen devices can somewhat no longer hide the particular voodoo mechanism so secretly as before, admittedly that each touchscreen device might use a slightly different magic to achieve a similar or exact miracle.

Obviously, only the hardy explorers are willing to get their hands dirty by trying to follow the instructions within Maximum PC’s article and recreate a replica of the touchscreen table that the article had described; us easy going folks who do not have the tenacity of the hardy explorers probably are more than happy just to understand or have a glimpse into the voodoo mechanism of the touchscreen devices.  It’s still though a lot nicer for one to actually have a hands-on experience of how to make a touchscreen table or something similar.  Personally, I may want to participate such a project or do it myself kind of thing for a certain touchscreen device someday, but no promise whatsoever.  How about you?  That Maximum PC’s article is a very good starting point for whoever wants to create a custom touchscreen device or something similar.

Check out the video of a demonstration of the touchscreen table that Maximum PC’s staffs had created right after the break.  Just a head up though, the touch screen environment which demonstrates by Maximum PC’s staff/tech within the video below might be already outdated, but heading over to http://wiki.nuigroup.com/Main_Page might point you in a more up to date direction in term of do it yourself touchscreen environment/devices.