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

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."

Re:Digital, Indeed!

[Fluffeh]

...20-finger multi-touch input

Wow! Does that mean you can use your toes for input as well as your fingers?

How about two people using a screen at the same time when talking about something on the screen. Both are turning objects that are being rendered, to view different angles and the like.

Seems that 20 inputs for a 22 inch screen is the most fingers that would be able to realistically get to it... Any more than two people huddling around the same screen would mean it needs to be significantly bigger in size than 22 inches.

20 times more fingerprints than before

[Joce640k]

Good luck being able to read text on that...

Re:Why?

[Aeternitas827]

Yet.

Don't make fun of the 3M engineers too much...

[ericvids]

Assuming you can set the screen down flat, you can do a lot of multiplayer games with this. Like duet piano, or playing Magic the Gathering with two players (and "tapping" virtual cards couldn't be any more realistic too!)

a multi-doctor usage dispay

[grag]

Instead of having several screens for one display, a large touch display can be divided into several touch screens for a number of doctors at one time. Just proposing an idea for hospitals.

Huh?

[ceraphis]

I was under the impression that iDevices could handle more than two inputs at a time? The first paragraph mentions that only up to a pinch is polled at a time?

Re:Two things

[Anonymous Coward]

1) Don't 3M make those?