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Hitachi Demos a Stylus-Friendly Capacitive Touchscreen
dk3nn3dy writes "Hitachi Displays have developed a capacitive touchscreen which converts input from a non-conductive object into electrostatic capacitance. This enables it to be used in a diverse range of ways, such as multi-touch using several fingers, with a plastic pen for finer input, and in cold places while wearing gloves. The display is currently under development for release in the second half of 2011."
Golly, I wish I could use a plastic pen or gloves to control today's capacitive touchscreens--it'd sure be swell! ...Yes, I'm being snarky, but the Pogo works much better than anything I saw in that video.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Finally, the Korean Sausage people can eat their sausages and still use their phones in cold weather.
Anything like this (btw, I do have an RCA player and about 30-40 movies; player just needs a new needle otherwise it's awesome good).
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
...pressure sensitivity? Because that would be something to write home about.
When it comes to capacitive screens and associated gadgets, battery life is where help is needed. Whoever comes up with technology to extend battery life will reap big. Who wants to recharge a gadget every night? Who has that time to even remember? Should we all carry extra battery packs just because we own a smart phone?
...with chopsticks?
THL phish sticks
I'm skeptical this will make it to phones. Dunno if anyone noticed that they are PROJECTION-type capacitive displays. This maketh me think small devices no worky with this.
Sorry, but I'd still prefer a wacom over this, then again that's because I drag my hand across the sensor area while I write and draw.
I live in Minnesota. Pity me. That said... You can't use your phone with the gloves we wear up here. You can't even smoke a cigarette in proper winter gloves. The rest of the time take the gloves off! Maybe if they build a phone with a 17" touch screen then I'll consider using it with gloves... but by that point, it won't fit in my pocket, my purse, etc. These people need to think about the human interface a little bit more. Capacitance screens that require finger contact is a good thing... it keeps butt-dialing from happening. Well, as much, anyway...
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There are tons of articles about people using "Slim Jim" type meats for styluses. Google it.
This is going to be great for people who need mouth sticks. I have a friend with cerebral palsy. She plays Nintendo DS games just fine with the resistive touch screen, but using a phone or any other capacitive screen device is nearly impossible.
The Hitachi Magic Wand?
Er. Why not use a mouth stick fitted with a capacitive tip? Given how those capacitive styluses are just a buck or two a piece, surely attaching one of those tips on her existing mouth stick would work.
-- perl -e'print pack"H*","6e656d6f406d38792e6f7267"'
This will be very welcome on my bike where I must use an expensive GPS just because an iPhone won't work through the gloves. The iPhone is an excellent motorcycle touring companion -- it runs GPS, streams and plays music (not to mention the phone and internet functionality on stops.) But it is severely limited because it won't play well with gloves.
So whats the difference between this, and a resistive touchscreen? Seems like they're reinventing the wheel a bit.
I'll be the first to concede that it was hell at first, but I've learned over the past year or two how to make remarkably precise selections with my stubby sausage fingers on a capacitive touchscreen. It's all a matter of personal preference, but for me it would be more of a hassle to fumble around with a stylus these days than it would be just to poke at the thing until I get it right.
I've tried them, and those pen accessories for the iPad/iPhone absolutely suck. You get more precision using a sausage. Don't waste your money.
Hopefully some manufacturer will come out with a decent screen that does both pen input and capacitive touch screen input. The current capacitive touch screen only devices are useless for drawing, sketching, or writing.
...type ctrl-alt-canc on Windows mobile devices!!! This is progress, isn't it ?!?
when it's covered in blood?
Maybe now my next phone can have the actual no-BS usefulness of resistive touch with the Appletastic feelgood shiny warm-n'-fuzziness of being called capacitive touch! No need to compromise!
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That's nothing! Wait until I tell you about winters I had lived through in Soviet Russia. Compared to that, Minnesota is a beach resort.
Does this act much like the new touch screens on the droids? I know the newer droids have a way better touchscreen than the older, 1st generation ones.