LG Display 4.3″ WVGA Multitouch LCD
Size: 4.3″
Pixel Format: 800 x 480
Pixel Density: 217.1ppi
Color: 16.7M (8 bit)
Brightness: 420 cd/m2
Contrast Ratio: 500:1
Viewing Angle: 60/50/70/70 (U/D/L/R, CR>10:1)
LCD Technology: TN
Touch: Yes, Multitouch

LG Display showcased many LCD innovations including this 4.3″ multitouch LCD sporting a pixel format of 800 x 480. I am scratching my head and wondering if this [...]

AU Optronics (AUO) will be the first display manufacturer to showcase a curved LCD during SID 2008. The LCD uses a conventional TFT LCD process and curves 100mm in a single plane. Potential applications for a curved LCD could be clocks, watches, automobile dashboards, etc. According to AUO information presentation is uniform including color and [...]

Multitouch is here to stay. Now I know. Mass adoption in the millions started with Apple’s iPhone. Now, we can expect a day when we can play games such as Missile Command with all ten of our fingers multitouching a massive 8 foot by 4 foot wall to counter the onslaught of air-to-surface missiles with [...]

In the March 2008 edition of the Touch Panel newsletter from Veritas et Visus, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Mark Fihn wrote an interesting piece on the rumor regarding a MacBook with a transparent multitouch display.
Here are a few choice paragraphs in the article titled “Rumors of transparency…”
About two years ago, a friend from Taiwan passed on [...]

This is old news, but once in a while I enjoy going back to videos such as this one. TED is held in Monterey, California and about 1000 people get to listen to some remarkable ideas. One idea is multi-touch. Apple has popularized an implementation of multi-touch with the iPhone and now on its MacBook [...]

Facts: Microsoft began work in 2001 and after 6 years of the company’s hardware divisions working with Microsoft Research (MSR), Steve Ballmer announced a new computing interface based on multi-touch technology at the D: All Things Digital conference: Surface Computing. The unit pictured above uses a Digital Light Processing (DLP) projection system. The display is [...]

There is not much information regarding this but Apple tapped Asahi to develop a special type of glass that is used on the iPhone to enable the phone’s multi-touch feature. I am not sure what makes this Asahi glass so special, but I will guess that it enables the “touch” to be more accurately measured [...]