Touch Screen Gadget

DIY PSP Touch modding project

Posted by sawaru | Category: Games & Console, Music & Entertainment, Portable Media Player & Storage, Toy, Trend Watch & News

A PSP modder jube808, has modded PSP with DIY touchscreen function. His project, named Pspzproject, aims to bring full touchscreen support to the handheld, along with increased battery life and a re-designed control pad.

The on-screen keyboard looks pretty responsive, and can be used with fingers or a stylus. Such a mod is probably making PSP homebrewers salivate with PSP/DS hybrid potential. Another video has a closer look at the whole rig.

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PSP 2.0 a multi-touch mobile console?

Posted by sawaru | Category: Games & Console, Mobile Phone, Multi Touch

Sony an electronics giant’s application to the US Patent and Trademark Office details a “handheld device with touchscreen and digital tactile pixels”. The device’s functions are somewhat hazy, but the patent suggests that individual ‘tactile pixels’ - pressure points, essentially - could serve as an alternative control mechanism to the main touchscreen.

The patent application states that potential uses for the invention could include everything from a game device to phones, portable media players and email gadgets.

But how could an array of “digital tactile pixels” positioned around the edge of a palm-sized touchscreen work? Well, if the invention were used as a phone, then it’s possible that several digital pixels could be put on either side of the main touchscreen and be used as menu shortcuts. A line of sensors could trigger number-key presses.

Alternatively, if used on a games device, then perhaps the pixels could serve as a way of better controlling on-screen action.

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Sony PSP touch screen patent

Posted by sawaru | Category: Games & Console

Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) was granted a patent on Friday for a “hand-held [sic] device with touchscreen and digital tactile pixels.” It’d be a stretch to say any of this is explicitly indicative of a PSP 2.0 or PSP phone, but it is interesting to note that “game device” is listed as one of the potential applications, alongside a plethora of other sony handhelds: phone, portable media player, email device, web browser device or navigation device.

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PSP touchscreen is a "must"

Posted by admin | Category: Games & Console

Portable hardware is becoming more and more popular, but I am interested in exploring what is deemed acceptable in the tough balance between hardware size and quality.

No doubt companies do market research on what consumers deem an appropriate size for a portable system, but is the current "midpoint" what we want?

Currently we have Sony’s PSP competing with the Nintendo DS, and the new Apple iPhone looks promising.

Both Nintendo and Apple have a touch-screen. The PSP doesn’t, but it has a much nicer screen and a generally more mature shelf of games.

As gamers, what do we want? Would open source make it better? (as the homebrew scene on PSP suggests…)

As a piece of portable hardware for ‘everything’ - games, movies, browsing, music, tell me what you would like to see, and hopefully the whitecoats will see this, stand up and pay attention.
For the current generations hardware, I would like to see a screen as big as an entire PSP and make it a touch screen.

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