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Multitouch

Lenovo L2461x Wide: 23.6-inch Multitouch Monitor

March 17, 2010

Lenovo’s L2461x Wide is a 23.6-inch capacitive multitouch LCD monitor. Specs include: 300 cd/m2 brightness, 120Hz MEMC (Motion Estimation Motion Compensation) technology, four USB ports, 2.0MP webcam, built-in speakers and a mic. Pricing is around US$550.
Windows 7. Multitouch. LCD monitor. I don’t think for one second that combining these three components will yield anything more [...]

Nexus One: Confused About Multitouch

March 3, 2010

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Android and Me has a video that shows the Nexus One’s multitouch getting utterly confused. Motorola’s Droid, on the other hand, has no problems at all.

Apple: Capacitive Multitouch Display Patent

February 17, 2010

On February 16, 2010, Apple has been granted US Patent #7,663,607 titled “Multipoint touchscreen”:
A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time and at distinct locations in the plane of the touch panel and to produce distinct signals representative of the [...]

Amazon Buys Touchco

February 3, 2010

Touchco brings interpolating force-sensitive resistance tech to Amazon. The startup’s touch technology can be made completely transparent, works with color LCDs, and can detect an unlimited number of simultaneous touch points.
Shift To LCD? Is Amazing making a shift from E Ink to color LCDs in the next version of the Kindle? Or will there be [...]

Samsung MU250: 23-inch All-In-One

January 14, 2010

23-inch, 1080p, Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 CPU, 3GB RAM, 500GB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce G310 GPU with 512MB VRAM. The unique feature is the multitouch capability of the 23-inch LCD. Perfect: fingerprints all over that huge 23-inch display, the result of trying click on menus and icons meant for mouse pointers with your much-larger fingers. [...]

JooJoo Press Shots

December 12, 2009

Do the bezels have to be so thick? More pictures at Engadget.

MIT Media Lab: Light Sensing Displays

December 11, 2009

By using light sensing displays, MIT’s Media Lab was able to put together a display that responds to gestures by sensing the movement of your hands through light-sensing pixels and pin holes. Here’s how visiting researcher Douglas Lanman describes the technique:
…instead of an LCD, an array of pinholes is placed in front of the sensors. [...]

Apple Tablet in March for US$1000

December 9, 2009

Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner has no real connection to Apple but is sure that Apple will release a 10.1-inch multitouch tablet in March or April of 2010. The price? $1000. Yair is most concerned about how Apple’s tablet will impact the publishing industry as well as distributors and platforms like Amazon and its Kindle. Apple’s [...]

Pixel Qi in Multitouch Tablet

December 6, 2009

Mary Lou Jepsen just updated her blog and shared that the first batch of Pixel Qi screens will be ready soon and that those will be integrated into “specialized tablet devices with multi-touch”. Hmm… a multitouch tablet. Pixel Qi will be at CES 2010 so maybe we can see a prototype then. Source: Pixel Qi

Motorola Invests in Sensitive Object

December 3, 2009

Motorola has invested in Sensitive Objects, a French company that has developed a piezoelectric sensor-based touch technology called Anywhere Multitouch. Anywhere Multitouch extends multitouch capabilities from the screen to the entire device. Reese Schroeder, managing director of Motorola Ventures, is excited:
Natural user interface (NUI) and in particular interacting with a device through touch is an [...]


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