Multitouch screens on smartphones and tablets are all the rage these days. But Microsoft is looking at bringing multitouch functionality to another tool: a digital pen. The company has applied for a patent on a multitouch ePen that changes its function depending on how you hold it. You’d still be able to use the pen […]
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eLocity A7 Android tablet turns out to have limited multitouch
The eLocity A7 Android tablet has been getting a lot of attention recently, as one of the first Android tablets available in the US to sport an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, Android 2.2, and a capacitive, multitouch display. That ain’t a bad set of features for a $299 device. Unfortunately, it’s starting to […]
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Huawei S7 Android tablet with capacitive touch display coming soon?
The Huawei S7 is a 7 inch Android tablet with decent specs including a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 3G and WiFi data connectivity, and full access to the Google Android Market. But some folks have been disappointed to find that the version currently available in the US and Europe has a resistive touchscreen display, which reacts […]
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Suli introduces the SL-7 Android tablet
We’ve seen a lot of cheap Android tablets come out of Taiwan and China over the past year, but most are burdened with low power processors and cheap plastic resistive touchscreen displays. Charbax at ARMDevices got a chance to check out an upcoming tablet called the Suli SL-7 that will sell for around $250 and […]
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Fujitsu launches line of 5 to 12 inch multitouch resistive displays
Resistive touchscreen panels get a bad rep these days, both because they can’t recognize fingertip input as easily as capacitive touch panels and for because many people have the mistaken belief that resistive displays can’t handle multitouch input. The truth is that while most cheap resistive touch panels found in tablets, netbooks, and handheld devices […]
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Mirabyte updates its FrontFace touchscreen UI for Windows tablets
Mirabyte FrontFace is a touch friendly replacement for the default Windows shell that attempts to make Windows XP, Vista, and 7 easier to navigate on a touchscreen tablet style computer. I took an early build for a test drive this summer, and the software was still obviously a work in progress. For instance, while there […]
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Capacitive multitouch netbook touchscreens going for under $100 on eBay
It’s been pretty easy to snag a touchscreen display that you can slap in a 9 or 10 inch netbook for the past few years, thanks to eBay. But these touch panels have tended to be inexpensive resistive touchscreens, requiring a stylus or fingertip for input and typically recognizing only one input at a time. […]
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Multitouch gesture support coming to Ubuntu 10.10
Multitouch gesture support is everywhere these days. Windows 7 has it baked in (well, not Windows 7 Starter, but all the other versions). So does Apple OS X and iOS, Google Android, Palm WebOS, and a number of other mobile operating systems. So it’s not all that surprising that Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth is […]
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OLPC XO 1.75 Laptop to support multi-touch
OLPC has announced its software goals for the next-generation XO Laptop. While the group isn’t ready to launch an XO tablet yet, the XO-1.75 Laptop will have a touchscreen display, and the software developers are working on adding support for multitouch gestures — which will also come into play when the tablet is ready for […]
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Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 now available for download
Microsoft launched the Touch Pack for Windows 7 last year to help showcase some of the touchscreen capabilities of Windows 7. But it was only available to OEMs, which meant that if your computer didn’t come with Microsoft Touch Pack preloaded, you couldn’t install it yourself… until now. Yesterday Microsoft released the Touch Pack for […]