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3M Says Its Multi-Touch System Means Almost No Lag

Posted by timothy on from the so-why-don'tcha-marry-it? dept.

jonniee writes "3M has rolled out a 22-inch digital display capable of 20-finger multi-touch input with less than 6 millisecond response time. The monitor incorporates 3M's Projected Capacitive Technology based on mutual capacitance operation theory. The result produces a silky smooth response that has almost no lag in execution."

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  1. 3M sure does a lot! by pablo_max · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am really amazed that this company is able to do so many different thing. From post-it notes to medical equipment. Not bad for a company that started in 1902 selling minerals to the east.

    1. Re:3M sure does a lot! by Vintermann · · Score: 5, Interesting

      They also made some great boardgames back in the day.

      I suspect they were the real-world inspiration for ACME corporation in Looney Tunes.

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    2. Re:3M sure does a lot! by tpholland · · Score: 5, Interesting

      A lot of it is down to the famous 15 percent rule--the idea that their researchers and engineers are free to spend 15% of their time pursuing their own ideas.

      Some of the younger developers at our place are in awe of Google having "invented" the whole one day a week innovating thing, and are shocked that some of the less cool corporations were doing this back in the sixties.