There are many areas where the touch screen technology has been improved tremendously. In older touch screen systems, the quality and brightness of the display was compromised because of the conductive metallic sheet that was used just under the glass. With an assortment of different touch recognition systems today, there are many ways around this problem and consumer touch screen devices now offer brighter displays and even higher resolutions. One such prominent example is the HP touch screen laptop which is sold as a multimedia center because of their exceptionally bright display and improved graphics engine.

Another area that has received a lot of attention recently is the multi touch technology. Many consumer touch screen computers offer this feature these days such as the Toshiba touch screen laptops as well as almost any mobile touch screen device like gaming systems and smart phones. Multi touch allows the computer to recognize and process more than one point of contact on the screen. This allows greater interactivity and more useful manipulation of the objects on the screen such as the grabbing, stretching, zooming ability when working with photos and even video in some cases.

In line with the improvements of touch recognition to render multi touch functions, the basics of touch technology has been improved as well. Most systems have become much more intelligent in their ability to recognize the difference between intentional and unintentional points of contact as well as being more precise in determining where the contact was made. This is a common problem in older machines especially things like information kiosks where the user meant to trigger one command but the touch recognition mistaken it for a different command. This often leads to a lot of confusion and frustration with the user and definitely slows down the efficiency of computing. These problems have been largely fixed in new systems today.