Hitachi Touchscreen Allows Use of Gloves, Pens

[exfileme]

Now touch screens can be used wearing gloves and other insulating objects.

Hitachi Touchscreen Allows Use of Gloves, Pens : Read more

 

[gorillateets]

So it is sensitive to touch through force rather than detecting the electricity from your fingertips. I think the same tech is in my crappy tom tom.

 

[Pyroflea]

Non capacitive touch screens have been out forever... My 2 year old HTC works fine using pretty much anything as a stylus. I've used pens, pencil erasers... I must be missing something though.

 

[Zoonie]

You guys are talking about resistive touchscreens. Resistive touchscreens can't do true multitouch. This can.

 

[house70]

"Previously projection-type designs only worked with bare skin and special styluses"...
you meant styli.(Oxford Dictionary)

Multitouch non-capacitive screen...yeah but better have a better detection sensitivity than a resistive.

 

[walkingasd]

well....time to start buying shares

 

[pravus]

I seen these at SAE Convergence or something much similar and it seemed pretty neat.

 

[MxM]

The question is if it is soft, scratchy plastic surface or not. The advantage of current capacitive screens is that they are as hard as glass, i.e. non-scratchy.

 

[geoffs]

Or, you can simply use gloves that work with capacitive touch screens, such as Agloves, or adapt your existing gloves using conductive thread Instructables

 

[reprotected]

Like the DS never had this technology.

 

[adamboy64]

[citation][nom]reprotected[/nom]Like the DS never had this technology.[/citation]

True, it doesn't.

 

[eddieroolz]

Some people really need to either read closer, or just follow tech a little more.

This screen is capacitive - yes the same ones on your smartphones - and it can sense styli and gloves in addition to electrical charge in your fingertips.

That wasn't too hard, was it?

 

[mman74]

Isn't it great that with the advent of capacitive touch screen phones, I've never had the problem of mis-dialling someone with the phone in my pocket, and letting them listen in whilst I bad-mouth them without realizing. Nope that has never happened to me with the iPhone / Android.

 

[techguy378]

[citation][nom]eddieroolz[/nom]Some people really need to either read closer, or just follow tech a little more.This screen is capacitive - yes the same ones on your smartphones - and it can sense styli and gloves in addition to electrical charge in your fingertips.That wasn't too hard, was it?[/citation]
Capacitive touchscreens require electrical contact. That's why they're called capacitive. If they can recognize touch from a plastic stylus this makes the screen resistive. Plastic and cloth are not conductive materials.

 

[virtualban]

suddenly captcha for new registrations and comments of newly registered members seems a good idea... also changing the layout of it often enough might help... you know what the spam I am talking about