@ninetynine

You couldn't have said it better.

Disgusting fingerprints.
Did not read article.

There’s a massive deal about their touch screens, it’s just that this article doesn’t articulate it that well. The big deal is that stantum combines the precision, pressure sensitivity, and the ability to use any object (conductive or not) for input, of resistive touch screens, with the multitouch capabilities of the capacitive screen (some might argue capacitive screens are more sensitive, and they are, but the best resistive screen nowadays, imo, are almost as sensitive, while leaving you a comfortable ability to graze the screen without it being registered as an input).

The thing is that almost any resistive OR capacitive screen that uses stylus input can also be thrown off by you resting your hand on it. The only thing that stops it is if the stylus has an active digitizer, and the device (either at the hardware level, or the software/OS level) is programmed to stop taking the resistive/capacitive screen inputs when it detects a digitizer input. Which effectively puts the stylus input hand-resting subject completely outside of the aspect of touch screens that Stantum excels at. And not just “it’s a different subject/matter/advantage”, but in the sense that the two are completely unrelated, and I can have a shitty resistive screen you have to put your body weight against to be sensed, and still have digitizer input be responded to the way you’re talking about, or one of the stantum ones, and if the manufacturer of the device programs it right or gives you the settings option to enable that, you’ll still be able to rest whatever you want on the screen while it senses the digitizer and it’ll just use the stylus input.

AND on top of that, you have the fact that at the software level, you can also write code to detect the approximate size and shape of the touches, which would then allow for ‘ignoring’ of inputs that resemble a resting hand in situations where you have that and another ‘stylus-like’ input.