Articles about touch screen technology

If you have kids and travel by car a lot with the family you know how easy is for the young ones to get bored, and how today's gadgets are helping you get by easier.The latest concept comes from GM, who's thinking on going touchscreen with the car windows, that can be used to display various apps and interact with the car occupants during long trips.The concept uses transparent displays (of course) and can be used for pretty much anything you think of: navigation, games, watching movies,...

Senseg is the touch screen that touches you back. That's right, the first technology that allows us to 'feel' the surface of the touchscreen. It's not the same thing as haptic feedback, which only vibrates when we touch a surface, but an actual technology that allows us to get a tactile feedback that simulates things like sandpaper, glass (that shouldn't be hard to imitate) and surfaces with different levels of friction.Senseg actually has a working prototype you'll be able to see in the vid...

I haven't talked here for some time about touch screen technologies, but researchers are not laying down and watching TV. TapSense is the latest advancement in touchscreen research field and is a technology that hopes to achieve something unbelievable: determine with high accuracy what you've used to touch a screen.Basically TapSense is a huge advancement from the palm detection technology used in some devices today. With TapSense a device could be able to determine if you tapped the screen,...

It's been a while since we've talked about new touchscreen technologies here at All Touch Tablet, but today it's the perfect time to take a look at an innovative discovery made by a small Chinese company called Greendix: touchscreen displays fitted with solar panels. Yeap, it's that good in concept: additionally to the touch screen layer fitted on the normal display you also put a transparent solar panel that boosts battery life when direct sun light hits the surface of the screen.This tech ...

We've had a bunch of news here about the Evigroup tablet last year, and now it seems the French company is back in the game, but not their Evigroup Paddle tablet is the one catching our attention. It's their head tracking technology software that senses the movement of our head and eyes to determine precisely where you are looking at the screen.Evigroup even put up a video demonstration of this interesting piece of software, which shows a very promising interface control technology, with a h...

I love reading about new touchscreen technologies, it puts me in that state of mind where I find myself imagining the future, how gadgets will look like and feel like in a couple of years or decades. The latest touch related prototype is the touchscreen disposable paper. You heard right, it's a touch technology where the display is made of paper, and you can interact with it not only by touch but also by shaking and even blowing air over the surface of the paper, as a special video camera softwa...

It's interesting how touch screen technologies have evolved throughout the time, but it's more interesting to take a peak at the future, at how we will interact with gadgets in the futures. Thankfully, from time to time a new and interesting patent emerges, like the one filed by Microsoft about a special kind of screen that once touched reacts by providing tactile feedback to your fingers.The patent is called "Light-induced Shape-memory Polymer Display Screen" and uses infrared light to dete...

Even if we write here at AllTouchTablet.com about tablets all day long, from time to time we do take a look at touch screen technologies and prototype displays like the BendDesk, a display curved at 90 degrees that uses three cameras and two projectors together with IR lights to detect up to 10 points of input. This is true multitouch, and it's also an interesting perspective over dual monitor technology and how it can benefit from a sceen bent in the middle.As you can see in the video below...

I've always said that touch screen technology has one major disadvantage: you have to move your hands (or fingers) for it to work and after a while, after throwing your hands into the air you become tired. The same goes for voice recognition: you can't just talk to a computer 8 hours straight at your desk. For me the ultimate interface is thought control and it seems we're not far-off from that, as Intel has just released info on an experiment they're completed successfully with a subject contro...

Maybe I've labeled incorrectly the gestural interface presented by Hitachi as a touchscreen interface, but it's clear it has something to do with your fingers, but has the advantage that you don't have to really touch the screen, leaving smudges and fingerprints all over. Plus you don't have to be that close to the screen to 'command' it.If you want to compare it to something you've seen it's the Minority Report movie, where Tom Cruise is controlling multiple screens by flicking his hands ar...