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Multitouch.

A word that has been echoing in our ears for the past two years. Made ever popular by the real world application Apple has shown in it’s iPhone and iPod touch product line ups. Manufacturers are scrambling to get multi-touch devices into mainstream market.

Finally, Windows 7, which will become the world’s most used operating system in the next 5-10 years. Fully supports multi-touch technology.

Today’s consumer hardware development is driven by the gaming industry, faster processors, bigger rams, faster GPUs. They’re all there to create entertainment.

What’s inevitably on the horizon now is that the gaming industry is getting into 3D vision and multi-touch technologies. Mobile phone applications and games are the experiments on UI and ‘introduction’ to the full-blown PC games.

The first of these new generations of games is already coming: Take a look at R.U.S.E

However, possibly due to the financial downturn that we’re still trying to clear. These technologies maybe delay, products that supports full multi-touch screens are far and few between. So are products that supports 3D vision. There is no doubt these two technology is the future, but currently no products on the market supports both. Just how far are we till we see such products on the market? And more importantly, how much would they cost?

Only time will tell.