Touch screen laptop computers are ideal for making presentations.

I was watching the weather today on a major cable network news channel and I noticed that the old green screen that the news display is usually shown on was missing. In it’s place was a huge 60 inch touch screen. I’ve seen this technology in use on a few other television broadcasts lately. This equipment is still outrageously expensive but touch screen laptop computers are well within most budget limits.

For those of you who use a laptop computer connected to a projector for making presentations, a touch screen laptop would be very useful. I’m not sure if the software is available to make use of the technology but the concept is solid.

I remember making presentations and awkwardly pausing to find the information I needed the laptop to display on the projection screen. Being able to see my presentation on the touch screen laptop  and reach over a touch the screen instead of fumbling with the keyboard and mouse would have made the presentations run much smoother.

Another thing that really drew my attention was the ability of the presenter to be able to draw on the screen of his touch screen laptop with his finger. The days of making an “imaginary” underline or circle around a key phrase with a laser pointer would be long gone.  You can simply touch the screen of your touchscreen laptop and draw the underline.  It will  then seemingly magically appear on the projector screen as if you walked up to it with a magic marker.

The touch screen laptop computer will soon bring this from science fiction to science fact.