How Does a Touch Screen Work?
It seems simple: tap the screen of your smartphone to open an app, or swipe your finger across the screen to make the smartphone do something else. However, that touch screen has been years in the making and is a complex piece of what is now essential technology. Readers will find out how layers of glass, metal, and LEDs work together to make a touch screen work. Full-color images augment explanations of different kinds of touch screens. Readers will be captivated by the many uses touch screens have in the world today, from controlling machinery in a factory to helping surgeons perform medical procedures.
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How Does a Touch Screen Work?
It seems simple: tap the screen of your smartphone to open an app, or swipe your finger across the screen to make the smartphone do something else. However, that touch screen has been years in the making and is a complex piece of what is now essential technology. Readers will find out how layers of glass, metal, and LEDs work together to make a touch screen work. Full-color images augment explanations of different kinds of touch screens. Readers will be captivated by the many uses touch screens have in the world today, from controlling machinery in a factory to helping surgeons perform medical procedures.
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How Does a Touch Screen Work?

How Does a Touch Screen Work?

by Leon Gray
How Does a Touch Screen Work?

How Does a Touch Screen Work?

by Leon Gray

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Overview

It seems simple: tap the screen of your smartphone to open an app, or swipe your finger across the screen to make the smartphone do something else. However, that touch screen has been years in the making and is a complex piece of what is now essential technology. Readers will find out how layers of glass, metal, and LEDs work together to make a touch screen work. Full-color images augment explanations of different kinds of touch screens. Readers will be captivated by the many uses touch screens have in the world today, from controlling machinery in a factory to helping surgeons perform medical procedures.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781482403893
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
Publication date: 01/01/2014
Series: High-Tech Science
Pages: 48
Product dimensions: 8.60(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range: 9 - 10 Years

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 What Is a Touch Screen? 4

Chapter 2 Touch Screens Through Time 16

Chapter 3 Touch Screen Interaction 22

Chapter 4 Touch Screens in Action 28

Chapter 5 Future of Touch Screens 40

Glossary 46

For More Information 47

Index 48

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