Thursday, December 30, 2010
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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.
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.
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.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Different People, Different Gestures
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."
Projected Capacitive Touch Screen White Paper
Touch International shared me a helpful article to understand projected capacitive touch technology.
Projected Capacitive Touch Screens (PDF)
More white papers about touch technologies can be found here.
Thanks, Touch International.
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.
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."
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Haptic button for your iPhone
The buttons take the form of tiny nubs attached to a sheet of plastic much like a screen protector. These are placed on the touchscreen over where the D-pad and buttons would normally be displayed by a game. Then you just play as normal tapping the buttons as you would the screen.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Steve Jobs: Touchscreen Laptops Don't Work (AAPL)
Excerpt: Jobs put a damper on the speculation today saying, "We've done tons of user testing on this, and it turns out it doesn't work."
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Touch S/W Frameworks
Here is a collection of several touch development frameworks
Freescale Touch Sensing Software Suite
Microchip mTouch Projected Capacitive Touch-Screen Sensing Technology
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Kicker Studio: Finger Positions for Touchscreens
When it comes to touchscreen devices, we’re not making the best use of our fingers.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
R.U.S.E - Strategy comes to multi touch
It's a more realistic version of multitouch R.U.S.E game.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
Microsoft's RearType: Physical keys to the iPad, Kindle and tablet kingdoms? | ZDNet
More details are found at http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/?id=135609
High-Speed Tactile Sensing Array
It's a 16x16 tactile sensing array prototype from DESIRE project (http://ni.www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/node/3002)
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
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.
First, let’s remove four bottom screws.
We first see a mysterious metal sheet.
After removing the sheet, another mysterious white paper appears.
This is a photo of backside of Wacom’s EMR pen sensing panel.
It has many vertical strip lines.
Now, let’s move to its front side.
Here, we see hundreds of horizontal strip lines.
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.
The touch panel has diamond shaped electrode patterns.
Let’s see the face of the touch panel.
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.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Glass Multi-touch Trackpads Only Make Sense With Displays Under 'Em
It's an old but interesting concept design.
Friday, July 30, 2010
PCB-DEV - LED Multi Touch Panel
Thanksfully, the author provides board schematics and demo applications.
TouchStream MacNTouch: Laptop KeyBoard Replacement for Apple PowerBook and iBook
I've never known that FingerWorks sold the multi-touch equipped Machintosh notebooks. Since Apple has acquired FingerWorks, someday we may see MacBooks with multi-touch keyboards
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
E-Book Readers
This post lists e-book reader devices of various companies.
Apple
1. iPad
- 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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