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PlayStation Touch Screen for Your Linux Box

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fun-with-hardware-hacking dept.

hebertrich writes to tell us that IBM DeveloperWorks has an interesting article about how to modify a PlayStation LCD for use as a touch screen panel for your Linux box. From the article: "Historically, the lack of friendly interfaces has been an obstacle to making Linux® a commercially viable product for end users, but with available GUIs, that's yesterday's news. What's the next step in creating an easy-to-use Linux-based product for consumers? Imagine adding a user-oriented LCD touchscreen. A touchscreen facade can make back-end Linux applications very usable in such devices as custom digital media centers (either in the home or in automobiles), DVRs and PVRs, and even control interfaces for household robots."

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  1. Obstacle to making Linux commercially viable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If lack of a touchscreen was holding linux back, a procedure that requires cracking something else open, cabling and soldering will not be winning you new converts or my grandmother.

  2. So what do you do at IBM? by kyoko21 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I write articles such as the one mentioned above. I get payed to think and work on things that are eventually free.

    Man, what a job.

  3. Think of the possibilities by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nethack Touch Screen Edition, you could... finger finger, finger bash, finger fsck... you get the point.

  4. sigh by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    Touchscreens. The universal UI panacea. Well, apart from speech recognition.

    --
    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  5. Re:Touchscreens holding Linux back? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The problem is that user gets a headless linux server and doesn't know how SSH into the box from another machine to use the PINE email client. Presto! A touchscreen LCD solves the problem. It's what known as an IBM solution. :P

  6. Mission Accomplished! by Pedrito · · Score: 3, Funny

    Historically, the lack of friendly interfaces has been an obstacle to making Linux® a commercially viable product for end users, but with available GUIs, that's yesterday's news.

    This sounds a lot like (and is about as accurate as) Bush on the U.S.S. Lincoln claiming "Mission Accomplished."

  7. Re:or just buy a 7" touchscreen by elviscious · · Score: 2, Funny

    PSone on Ebay
    Hmmm, $1.00, or $150.... I've made my choice

  8. Smirnoff by slashdotmsiriv · · Score: 4, Funny

    In Soviet Russia screens touch you...