{"id":2748,"date":"2009-10-14T09:19:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T08:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2009-10-14T09:19:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T08:19:54","slug":"apple-touch-screen-input-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/apple-touch-screen-input-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Touch Screen Input Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the rumours about Apple buying up touch screens and the ideas that they&#8217;ll be releasing a tablet style device somewhere in between an iPhone and an iBook sometime soon, wouldn&#8217;t it be cool if they had something completely different up their sleeves.<\/p>\n<p>How about using the touch screens not as part of a new device, but as an input device for a desktop computer such as the iMac.<\/p>\n<p>Just imagine a touch screen about the size of the current Apple wireless keyboard that could be used as an input device. 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