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New Touchscreen Technology Like Writing On Paper
An anonymous reader writes "A company claims it has the technology to make writing on touchscreens more like writing with pencil and paper, when the harder you press the thicker the line you produce. The technology uses a material called Quantum Tunneling Composite (QTC), the resistance of which is extremely sensitive to pressure, unlike today's touchscreen phones, which might be fine for basic finger-pointing, but they are poor at gauging the pressure of the touch. The hope is that this will be useful in Asia for handwriting recognition, because Asian scripts use a lot of variation in line thickness. Interestingly, screens with a standard 2D touch matrix can get the extra measure of control using a narrow strip of QTC down the side."
Etch A Sketch.
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Do the non-smoking graphic designers have a different preference?
To format your hard drive, push this button. To cancel, push that same button, but with exactly 1.2 pounds of force.
Because it's a touchscreen. Those aren't new in themselves, but this is apparently the first touch-sensitive one.
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
That reply was awesome. Thanks. Related:
http://xkcd.com/406/
... you can make a big ol' permanent dot.
I'm not sure I would want to use a soldering iron as a pen...
> Also, pencils do not produce significantly thicker lines when you apply more
> pressure. You can draw a faint line, a regular line, and break the graphite,
> but that's about it.
Yes, but the marketing guy who wrote the blurb doesn't know that as he is only a twenty-something and so has never used a pencil.
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Which is exactly why Italian English is superior. The violent pronunciation is reinforced by the nonverbal gesturing leading to an unmistakable communication of a wish to induce bodily harm.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.