Hitachi Touchscreen Allows Use of Gloves, Pens

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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.
 
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.
 
"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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
[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.
 
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 😛
 
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