Hitachi Demos a Stylus-Friendly Capacitive Touchscreen 47
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."
multitouch... (Score:3, Funny)
...with chopsticks?
Re:Fail. (Score:4, Funny)
It just has to be enough to provide a reliable contact patch.
Okay, you're not from around here so let me explain Minnesota winter to you:
Imagine drinking battery acid. That is what every breath feels like in January. Now add to that about 6 layers of clothing, so thick that if separated from your person could fill roughly the same space as you. You look like the Stay Puft Marshmellow Man from Ghostbusters. And you know what? It still feels like someone is pouring crushed ice down your back. If you have a dick, it is shriveled up and clinging to the inside of your pants leg and looks like a stack of dimes. Tits, if you have them, are so painfully sharpened they could cut glass.
Now, do you really thing a reliable contact patch is what an all-weather phone needs? Please! In January, my car's happy little voice that greets me in the morning sounds like it got fed the wrong way through a tape player. The GPS speaks in tongues for the first 20 minutes of the trip.
Touch-sensitive phones have limits. Specifically, anywhere north of southern Illinois.
Re:Fail. (Score:1, Funny)
Look, if I want something cold and unforgiving shoved in my nethers, I'll go see my gyno.
Re:Fail. (Score:1, Funny)
Does it work... (Score:3, Funny)
when it's covered in blood [schlockmercenary.com]?