This will be the next big thing: Forget your keyboard and mouse! Apple is already working on it. Imagine a tablet pc with this kind of display and a flashdrive. This would be a completley new way how we interact with computers.

While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops.

Be sure to check out Jeff Han’s demonstration and his homepage.