Touch Screen Gadget

Really no room left for buttons

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Multi Touch, Trend Watch & News

It’s been a good year for touch screens.

The launch of the first iPhone model a year ago boosted interest in the technology tremendously, and the updated model available Friday likely will stoke enthusiasm further. Now touch-screen manufacturers are going flat out, and more devices will soon be controlled by the tip of your finger.

"After the iPhone came out, a lot of mobile-phone companies said ‘Oh, I can make that kind of touch-screen mobile phone, too,’" said Jennifer Colegrove, analyst at iSuppli Corp.

Jon Mulder, product marketing manager for Sony Ericsson’s U.S. arm, said touch screens have become a "hygiene factor" - a must-have for phones that want to compete in the high end of the U.S. market.

Colegrove projects that 341 million touch screens will be shipped worldwide this year, up from 218 million in 2007 and 81 million in 2006.

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Transient MultiTouch Interface

Posted by sawaru | Category: Multi Touch, Music & Entertainment

Derek Olson of Sussex, an art student with a concentration in multimedia design, has created an installation that allows anyone to use and interact with music by using a computer touch screen. An individual’s touch on the screen triggers a mathematical algorithm and the outcome is music.
His work, titled “Transient MultiTouch Interface,” caught the attention of the Association for Computer Machinery Special Interest Group on Graphics, known as ACM/SIGGRAPH.

SIGGRAPH officials selected Olson’s work as the second place entry in the physical installation category of the association’s Space Time Interactive Competition.
His work will be exhibited at the 35th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques to be held August 11-15 in Los Angeles.
“While we have had students with posters at the conference, this installation piece is a first,” Susan Hunt, chair of the art and design department, said. “It is exciting to have a student’s work presented at a conference like SIGGRAPH, which has more than 40,000 people in attendance from around the world.”

Olson’s work is unique because his touch screen allows for an unlimited number of simultaneous touches. Normal touch screens allow only one touch at a time.

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Touchscreen System Includes Multi-Touch All Point On a Single Chip

Posted by sawaru | Category: Multi Touch, Trend Watch & News

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) today introduced the TrueTouch™ touchscreen solution based on the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip architecture. The TrueTouch offering includes a single-chip touchscreen solution that can interpret up to 10 inputs from all areas of the screen simultaneously. This capability, known as “multi-touch all point,” enables designers to create new usage models for products such as mobile handsets, portable media players (PMPs), GPS systems and other products. Examples of applications well-suited for multi-touch all point functionality include keyboard implementations, inputting multiple locations into a GPS, playing video games on a mobile handset, and making multiple adjustments to sound and/or video settings on a PMP.

In addition to the multi-touch all point products, the TrueTouch family includes devices that perform traditional touchscreen functions including interpreting single touches, and gestures such as tap, double-tap, pan, pinch, scroll, and rotate. This combined touchscreen portfolio of solutions is the industry’s broadest. Information on the TrueTouch family, along with a video demo, is available at www.cypress.com/go/truetouch. In addition, Cypress will present a webinar entitled “Designing Compelling User Interfaces with Multi-Touch All Point Touchscreen Technology” on June 25 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Interested parties can register for the seminar at www.techonline.com/learning/webinar/208400682. Read the rest of this entry »

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Help System Designers Choose Between Single-touch, Multi-touch Gestures and Multi-touch All-point

Posted by sawaru | Category: Multi Touch, Software, Trend Watch & News

Cypress Touchscreen Webinar on June 25 Helps System Designers Choose Between Single-touch, Multi-touch Gestures and Multi-touch All-point Technology SAN JOSE, Calif.CA-CYPRESS-SEMICONDUCTOR.

Touchscreens have become the user interface of choice for many applications, enabling users to directly interact with the varied content within a display. From single-touch and multi-touch gestures to multi-touch all-point’simultaneously interpreting any number of independent points on the screen’users can now manipulate many more functions easily and intuitively. The webinar will start by explaining what touchscreen technology is and how it works. The presenters will then review different usage models designers should consider for incorporating touchscreen functionality in system designs. Interested parties can get more information and register at http://seminar2.techonline.com/registration/distrib.cgi?s=1271&d=2237.

‘This webinar will give engineers an understanding of the latest developments in touchscreen technology, empowering them to decide what level of interface functionality best fits their system,’ said Babak Hedayati, senior vice president of Marketing and Applications for Cypress. ‘Cypress is uniquely positioned to help designers leverage this hot technology based on our leadership across multiple forms of touch-sensing interfaces.’

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Teclast T50 shakes iPhone crown

Posted by admin | Category: Mobile Phone, Multi Touch

A new Teclast player has been announced, the Teclast T50. The T50 has an attractive design, WGVA widescreen display, similar to iPhone capacitive touch-screen, multi-point touch, RMVB / RM / FLV / AVI video support, and audio independent dual-core processors.
Details yet to be announce..

Here’s an explaination of the capacitive touch-screen and multi-point touch.

Capacitive touch screen: capacitive touch screen is the main structure on the screen in the glass coating of a transparent thin film layer, then add a conductor layer of protection glass, double-glass design can completely protect the conductor layer and sensors.

Multi-point touch: a traditional touch screen can only judge a touch, if at the same time with more than two points are touched, will not be able to make the right reaction, or reaction confusion. Touch the multiple tasks can be divided into two aspects of the work, first at the same time collecting more signal, the signal on every road the meaning of judgement, the so-called gesture recognition.

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Multitouch a new user interface emerging and future-proof ready

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This interface is generally called “multitouch,” and it involves using one or more fingers on a screen or touchpad to perform special gestures that manipulate lists or objects on a screen — without moving a mouse, pressing buttons, turning scroll wheels or striking keys.

Apple didn’t invent the multitouch concept. Academic and commercial researchers, and small, obscure companies, have been working on it for years. Apple is adapting the concept, adding its own ideas and popularizing it — just as it did in the 1980s with the mouse and the graphical user interface, which had also been invented elsewhere.

Rival companies are scrambling to add multitouch features to laptops and other digital gadgets. Synaptics, a leading supplier of touchpads for laptop makers who compete with Apple, has announced that shortly it will incorporate several multitouch features into its touchpads. Microsoft is producing a coffee-table-size computer called the Surface, meant for hotels, casinos and retail stores, that uses multitouch finger gestures to move around digital objects such as photos, play games and browse through product options. Hewlett-Packard developed a prototype of a similar multitouch coffee-table computer for home use.

And, in the back rooms of this month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, various cellphone makers, seeking to emulate the iPhone, were showing off their own unannounced efforts at multitouch. One prominent cellphone maker, Taiwan-based HTC, has already built a phone, called the Touch, which slaps a rudimentary multitouch interface on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system.

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