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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."
Finally, the Korean Sausage people can eat their sausages and still use their phones in cold weather.
One of my complaints about some of the designs that are currently in use is that they don't tolerate large fingers very well. The Nexus One does a pretty good job, but it's a challenge to use it very quickly. At least it shows you what the letter is that you've pushed.
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).
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...pressure sensitivity? Because that would be something to write home about.
Can you not see why being able to use any old stylus and pen is not better than having to use specific ones?
and for $15 for one it appears.. where with this screen I can get a pack of 3 to 5 DS "plastic pens" for a few bucks
Golly, your wish is granted. Too bad you didn't wish for a plastic pen that didn't suck.
I've got one of these, and after five minutes of using it I chucked it in the drawer. It's nowhere near as nice as using a stylus on a resistive screen when you want to do something precise.
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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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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.
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.
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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.
I use gummy bears for all my stylus needs...
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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.
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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then, wouldn't it be a pEgo?
I can't believe it, but it seems like there's actually a girl here on Slashdot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.