Touchscreen Technology

The above video is over a year old, and the advances that have been made with Microsofts Surface since then have been significant, but the thing that I'm interested in here is what this will mean to us as designers. In the actual creating of things, this sort of technology's going to change the way we work in that screens that you can actually draw on are going to become a common place thing, rather than using a seperate graphic tablet. More importantly the kinds of things we're designing are going to change. Being able to have multiple contact points on the same screen is going to totally change the possibilities of what we can achieve in interactive design, as someone being able to manipulate two or more things on a screen at the same time with their fingertips is going to break down the limitations that are currently present in moving a single pointer around the screen with a mouse.