Thursday, December 30, 2010

N-Trig teaches DuoSense to write on Android screens, tablet to come in the first half of 2011 -- Engadget

Kinect admits itself to hospital, treated for gesture control of medical images -- Engadget

Elliptic Labs set to save your iPad from smudges with 3D gesture-sensing dock (video) -- Engadget

Quadrocopter plays the piano, wishes us a happy and complacent holiday (video) -- Engadget

Kinect rumored to have PC support in waiting -- Engadget

KinEmote: Kinect gesture control for Boxee and XBMC media centers now available (video) -- Engadget

HRP-2 humanoid robot learns to use obstacles to its advantage -- Engadget

Arduino, iPod touch turns an LCD into a browser-based sketch pad (video) -- Engadget

Free Kinect keyboard emulator lets you WoW while AFK (video) -- Engadget

App store milestones: Windows Phone 7 hits 5,000 as Android passes 200,000 available apps -- Engadget

Sanwa trots out a multitouch mouse of its own, the MA-TOUCH1 -- Engadget

Friday, December 10, 2010

GestureWorks 2.0 Multitouch Software Framework Now With Over 200 Built-In Gestures -- CORRALES, N.M., Dec. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ --

Ideum - a multitouch software and hardware development firm - has announced a major update to the world's most advanced multitouch authoring solution. GestureWorks 2.0 now has built-in support for over 200 hundred gestures.

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Touchscreen Handsets to Reach 900 Million by 2015

By 2015, ARCchart forecasts that over half of handsets will support touchscreens of various types, creating a market of almost 900 million units.

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IDT Unveils Multi-Touch Projected Capacitive Touch Screen Technology | TradingMarkets.com

Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT), an Analog and Digital Company delivering mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, announced a true single-layer multi-touch projected capacitive touch screen technology for screen sizes up to five inches.

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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Different People, Different Gestures

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IUP has interviewed 340 participants in nine countries and draw several interesting implications about multi-touch gesture interaction.

“Around the globe, users use the same gestures to operate multi-touch interfaces - as confirmed by a study of the International Usability Partners (IUP). The international network interviewed 340 participants in nine countries wanted to find out about cultural differences in operating multi-touch interfaces. Another result of the study: a gesture set, recommending intuitive gestures for 28 actions to support designers in interface design.”

Very interesting!

Thanks, Andreas.

Link: A cultural touch – Study analyzes cultural differences in using multi-touch interfaces

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Stretchable electronic skin - Nokia Research Centre

Excerpt: "The electronic skin uses evaporated gold as a conductor. Researchers have created an electronic touchpad that can be pulled like a rubber band. Yet it responds to touch and pressure."

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Projected Capacitive Touch Screen White Paper

Touch International shared me a helpful article to understand projected capacitive touch technology.

Projected Capacitive Touch Screens (PDF)

Mutual Capacitive Sensing

More white papers about touch technologies can be found here.

Thanks, Touch International.

Touch Sensitive Robot

Capacitive touchscreen that senses gloves and pens

Hitachi has given a demonstration of a new capacitive touchscreen that could allow touch without needing direct finger contact. The surface still uses projection to catch the input but can recognize not only a thin layer in between, such as cloth from a glove, but also completely inanimate points such as a pen or a fingernail, Japan's Nikkei BP learned.

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Credit Card with Braille Display

>> "The Credit Card for the Blind looks complicated but is quite simple to use. It uses the cardholder’s fingerprint (using fingerprint recognition software) as their signature and the Braille on the display for transaction details."

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Friday, August 6, 2010

[Photos] Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen & Multi-Touch Teardown

Since I’m a little tired of using Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen & Multi-Touch, I made up my mind to fully dissect the poor toy.

Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen & Multi-Touch Teardown

Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen & Multi-Touch

First, let’s remove four bottom screws.

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We first see a mysterious metal sheet.

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After removing the sheet, another mysterious white paper appears.

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This is a photo of backside of Wacom’s EMR pen sensing panel.

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It has many vertical strip lines.

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Now, let’s move to its front side.

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Here, we see hundreds of horizontal strip lines.

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Since we have toured pen sensing panel, now it’s time to proceed to the touch panel. The touch panel is attached right beneath the cover of Bamboo Fun.

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The touch panel has diamond shaped electrode patterns.

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Let’s see the face of the touch panel.

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Here’s all the parts. Wacom's Bamboo Fun Pen & Multi-Touch has two panels – one for finger touch and the other for pen touch.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

E-Book Readers

This post lists e-book reader devices of various companies.

Apple

1. iPad

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  • Size: 242.8 X 189.7 X 13.4
  • Weight: 0.68(WiFi), 0.73(WiFi+3G)
  • 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology
  • 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch(ppi)
  • Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
  • Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously
  • CPU (Processor): 1GHz Apple A4 custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a chip
  • Input Method: Touch Screen
  • Price: $499(WiFi), $629(WiFi+3G)
  • Release Date: 2010. 4

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