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."
Finally (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Wowzers! (Score:3, Interesting)
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
Re:Wowzers! (Score:2, Interesting)
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.
Re:Fail. (Score:3, Interesting)
How about gloves with little stylus bumps in the ends of the fingers? It just has to be enough to provide a reliable contact patch.
Great for disabled people who use mouth sticks too (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Fail. (Score:1, Interesting)
Well no worries then. If it really is that cold, it's probably outside of the operating temperature for ANY touchscreen device and probably even for the LCD itself. Your typical resistive touchscreen probably won't work much below -15 to -20 and the typical capacitive touchscreen will probably give out even sooner.
Re:Pogo is a waste of money (Score:1, Interesting)
The Sony Reader Touch Edition uses a IR based touch sensor. Using fingers, it feels like a capacitive touch screen, using the passive stylus (or your fingernail) I can draw figures just like on my resistive touch screen WinMobile. Plus I get 2 weeks charge on the Sony Reader, so the touch screen technology is not wasting power listening for a touch.
Re:Finally (Score:1, Interesting)
Whoever marked the parent offtopic needs to hand in their geek credentials. The screen described in the article is there to solve /exactly/ the problem that the Koreans were using sausages for - they needed a conductive stylus to use their capacitative screens in cold weather without removing gloves.