Gartner: Most Kids Will Use PCs With Touchscreens by 2015. The iPad may indeed be the future of computing, at least when it comes to the way you interact with it. According to IT research company Gartner, more than 50% of PCs purchased for users under 15 years of age will have touchscreens by 2015. Leslie Fiering, research vice president at Gartner, thinks kids will pave the way, with the corporate world lagging behind. "By 2015, we expect more than 50 percent of PCs purchased for users under the age of 15 will have touchscreens, up from fewer than 2 percent in 2009. On the other hand, we are predicting that fewer than 10 percent of PCs sold to enterprises in 2015 for mainstream knowledge workers will have touchscreens," she said. Gartner claims that this change will be driven by media content consumption and the content delivery ecosystem. Furthermore, Gartner sees huge potential for touchscreen devices in education. More than half of under-15s will use touchscreen PCs by 2015 New.
More than half of PCs purchased for use by under 15s in 2015 will have a touchscreen, says Gartner, compared to just two percent last year. However, when it comes to PCs for business use, less than 10 percent will have a touchscreen by 2015. Leslie Fiering, research vice president at Gartner, said there is renewed interest in touch input, despite the fact the technology has been around for more than 20 years.
"Multitouch on smartphones and the Apple iPhone phenomenon have shown users how useful touch can be with the right implementation, and Apple's introduction of the larger iPad has set off a wave of speculation about changing the industry," said Fiering. Apple's smartphone has helped drive the popularity of touchscreen devices "What we're going to see is the younger generation beginning to use touchscreen computers ahead of organisations. " "As with many recent technology advances, touch adoption will be led by consumers and only gradually get accepted by the organisation," Fiering said.
Touch-screen For Kids | kidzmodo.com | Web Sites, iPod, iPhone, Another exciting piece of news from the International Toy Fair. It seems like kids are getting their own iPad! Touch-screen technology and educational toys meet on the Fisher-Price iXLand (available for $80), that comes with six preloaded programs allowing kids to read interactive story books, practice handwriting, art and music. Additional programs will be downloaded via the built-in SD slot. Available from October 2010… just in time for next Christmas. via Mashable Tags: educational toys, Fisher-Price, Fisher-Price educational toys, iPad for kids, touch-screen for kids, touch-screen technology, Toy Fair.