Articles about touch screen technology

Remember quantum tunneling touchscreen technology? It's that technology which will allow pressure sensitive panels to be fitted to small devices like nothing we've seen before. Apparently Nissha signed an agreement with Peratech that allows them to use the technology in US for one year on devices with screens smaller that 3.5 x 5.5 inches.With this occasion we found out more about QTC (quantum tunneling) that uses particles with spikes that detect a contact from the early stages when you're ...

If you've ever used a graphic tablet you know that it is great for drawing as it registers pressure that's being applied to it with a stylus. In case of current touchscreen devices there's no way the OS can register pressure, thus making a difference between a hard press and a light touch. A device that could do that could implement contextual menus and actions depending on how hard you press on the screen.[caption id="attachment_1220" align="aligncenter" width="468" caption="Quantum tunneli...

Touchscreens are great because they offer bigger screens, thus better graphics and are more natural to interact with but have the disadvantage of getting dirty very fast, even if you wash your hands every 30 minutes (and you know that's impossible). To alleviate this problem Apple has filed a patent for a new type of touch interface that doesn't need the screen to be touched as special sensors will detect user's fingers while approaching the screen. Once this happens the interface reacts (like i...

There are two reasons not to like touchscreen panels: they are a magnet for fingerprints and while using your hand to touch it there's a big portion that's being hidden from your view making it impractical sometimes. Researchers are not accepting the fact that the future is now (as in touchscreens) and have worked a lot to improve the touch input concept. The latest trick are rear mounted touch panels which allow users to control devices by dragging/pressing and touching a rear mounted touch pad...

Remember the Microsoft Surface interactive table? It was an impressive display of technology. Now it seems that Interactive tablet for the masses (as in office environments) are around the corner as prices are starting to lower as cheaper prototypes are developed and innovative new functions are added. One such experiment is the Pictionaire interactive tablet that uses overhead mounted digital cameras to capture and replicate objects you put on the table. All those new objects are becoming avail...

The IT&C sector is one of the fastest moving industries on Earth so things we know and like today might not be here or have the same form tomorrow, or better said we won't recognize them as they will change a lot. The same will be the case with touch tablets, a relative young type of gadget today but which has the potential to evolve a lot more in the future, all depending on the imagination and ingenuity of researchers.Even if the technology hasn't yet evolved to the level we see in pop...

To say that Apple is an innovative company is a understatement. They are a company always trying to improve on previous generation of products and made huge improvements in human interaction and interface design plus always tried to improve the quality of interaction by using top notch components that reduce lag or use very good screens that offer unmatched performance (imagine how good they are if I'm not an Apple fan and I wrote the words above).As we know touch screen technologies have th...

As you already know, by far the best touchscreen technology today is capacitive in nature, but the downsize now is the high production cost of bigger diagonal display panels plus the inability to build bigger size screens, a problem that prohibits proliferation of bigger diagonal multi touchscreens.This situation is it change soon, as Chunghwa Picture Tube (CPT) announced they're working on a 21.5 diagonal projective capacitive touchscreen that will hit market next year. Projective capacitiv...

There are two major types of touchscreen technologies today and those are resistive and capacitive, but they're not the most precise or good when it comes to maintaining screen color quality or registering exact screen presses. Motorola aims to change that by working on developing a touch screen technology that relies on sound waves to register user input on the screen.[caption id="attachment_576" align="aligncenter" width="234" caption="SONAR like touch technology"][/caption]Motorola an...

Touchscreen technology can be explained basically very easy: you touch the surface of the screen and the device registeres your input and acts accordingly, but for this to happen there are a lot of technologies running in the background. First let's see what are the types of touchscreen technologies currently available to end users:capacitive rezistive surface acoustic wave1 - Rezistive touch screen A capacitive touch screen consists of three layers: screen, a conductive and rezist...