Technology is all about connection, convenience, and low profile. The iPhone is big now, but it’s nothing compared to where we’re headed: touch screen panel implants. Two more years and they’ll be here.

The iPhone is an iPod, a camera, a cell phone, an organizer, and an Internet platform. Everything you could possibly need in a handheld device. The next step is to eliminate the handheld part. Touch screen panel implants are how it will be done.

You may think this sounds like invasive, but consider the benefits. With a touch screen panel implant you’ll never lose your device, you won’t have to plug it in to recharge the battery because the electricity currents in your body will do that, you’ll always have your hands free, and everything will be wireless.

Getting the implant won’t require a huge operation either. The procedure will be on the same level as getting a tattoo or body piercing. It will be a unit about the area of a credit card face and not much thicker on the inside of your forearm. It will be waterproof, scratch proof, flexible, and durable enough to take everyday stresses. The smooth touch screen panel won’t ever be in your way. In fact, it will be nearly invisible when not in use. Your touch screen panel implant will act as your handheld device, laptop computer complete with a touchpad keyboard, TV remote, and wireless video game controller.

Each touch screen panel implant will come with a wireless headset for your phone and mp3 player. Through the headsets, touch screen panel implants will be able to respond to voice command.

In two years when touch screen panel implants become available for commercial sale, all computers will have wireless connectivity. So you will be able to use your touch screen panel implant anywhere.

As you know, touch screen panel aren’t new. They have been used for years in POS systems and handheld devices. But improved technologies will make touch screen panel implants more responsive and easier to use than anything on the market today.

Touch screen panel implants will revolutionize the use of technology for personal connectivity and convenience, but they are only a rest stop on the road to what is coming.

Technology will soon allow you to listen to music from your touch screen panel implant through audio implants in your ears. You wouldn’t even need the headset. These audio implants, similar to current hearing aid technology, may be available as soon as touch screen panel implants are.

But the best is yet to come. Engineers have already used implants in human brains to wirelessly control a computer mouse. This research has great promise for paralyzed people. Soon these brain implants will be able to do much more than move a computer mouse. When used along with a touch screen panel implant, a brain implant will allow you to dial friends’ numbers, shuffle through music, and even compose and send text just by thinking about it.

After this technology appears it won’t be long until touch screen panel implants will be able to interact with other implants directly connected with the audio, visual, olfactory, taste, touch, and speech centers of your brain.

This will not only allow you to listen to music and watch movies without peripheral devices, imagine playing a video game that involves all your senses. It wouldn’t be on a monitor, it would be all around you. You could be Mario, not just control him. Imagine having a conversation with one of your friends through pure thought. You could see whatever they see and hear whatever they hear. It’s not telepathy, but just as good.

These are real possibilities that could build directly on touch screen panel implant technology and not in the too far distant future.

Touch screen panel implants are the wave of the future and not at all invasive when you think of the potential benefits. Of course, in the beginning they will likely be very expensive, but like all other technology the price will fall. Look for touch screen panell implants from all the big electronics makers: Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung. The first of them will be available in time for Christmas of 2009.

To find out more about current touch screen panel technology go to Cirque.

Author: Mat Moniker is a writer for Innuity and a technology bum. Ipod Movies.

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