“Sharp today revealed a prototype touchscreen display it believes could solve many of the inherent limitations of current models. The current example uses the same 3.5-inch size and 320×480 resolution of the iPhone’s Balda-made display but builds optical sensors directly into the LCD surface, detecting changes by the pixel. Input is sensitive enough to allow complex multi-touch gestures such as an iPhone-like ‘pinch,’ but can also perform scanning functions; a future device could include a business card reader tool or automatically scan data codes found on packaging, Sharp says,” Electronista reports.
“Future developments should see the screen expand up to 12.1 inches,” Electronista reports.
Full article, with images, link to more images and info, here.
Who wouldn’t want to see a Mac multi-touch iTablet?
see me,
feel me,
touch me,
– – –
heal me.
mw : “three”
iWouldn’t
Touch screens? WTF?
Touch screens are a fad. Traditional buttons are classic and timeless. The iPhone only has one button. The MAC mouse only has one button. How do you MAC lemmings get anything done? Dorks.
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Placed against the skin for instant biometrics. Medical tricorder, here we come!
Shame you guys at MacDailyNews cannot make your website load up properly in Mac Safari, get it sorted!!! ANyone else having the problem in Safari with no story loading just comments???
Good question from you, guys.
I assume such an ergonomical interface would change the world of ultraportables. Such thing built into an Apple portable size of the PB 12″ would be great.
One desktop for the office and that device to go.. Or just that one at home.
I like the idea very much and have the money ready when it should be out one day…
works fine for me using Safari beta 3.0.3
@Andy, yup me too
Zune Tang,
STFU. Mighty Mouse (both wired and wireless) are actually 3 buttons plus a scroll wheel that goes 360 degrees.
Yup, I get the same…
No story or comments, just ads.
Refresh.
No story, but tiny comments, plus ads.
Refresh.
Another variation of no story, comments, but plenty of ads.
Am viewing/writing this whilst in Camino (still had to reload page!). MDN is without question the shittest site I view on a regular basis so far as user experience is concerned, which given they evangelise all things Apple is somewhat ironic.
Shitty site indeed. Get a clue MDN. Take off the blinders for a minute one of these days and fix the friggin site.
Zune Tang…. BWAAAAHHHAAAA!!!!!!!
Well done- I needed that. Gotta love sarcasm as art
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[dorks..{chuckles under breath}]
Same problem with Firefox. It does load correctly on the first refresh.
Touch screens, along with key boards and mouses. Different approaches for different activities. Lots of flexibility. Add the that simply talk to the device. It just keeps getting better and better.
Now I get out a tablet and plug it in for some activities. Wouldn’t have to mess with that any more. The note book in my lap could be a table as well. Awesome.
Zune Tang is joking right? No one could be that balled up and backwards. At least for his sake if hope it is instead a perverse sense of humor.
M$ will, of course, follow along behind in all of this and buy out the competition.
I thought I remember seeing an apple patent on phot sensors within the pixels of screens.
Zune Tang wrote, “Touch screens? WTF? Touch screens are a fad.”
An expensive and useless fad when the technology
is only on the Surface.
(ZT: Bill called. He wants to meet with you today to discuss your script. He sounded pretty angry.)
Say hello to iChat AV on the iPhone
Gil,
I’ve got three words for you:
“sarcasm and irony”
This could be good for teaching adolescents how to find and work the magic button. Stroke here…pinch there….
ZUNE lets challenge Now. !!!!!!!!!!
Com one Lets go . Your a complete looser. your about 22 years old and heard that PCs are for real men,
Well Mr Tang stop playing WOW for a minute.,
And lets debate
PC user try searching for something in windows,
tell me do you like the dog that comes up????
a fken dumb dog pissed around on your screen
:> send error report to (MSCKC Suckers) always Freezes
so you end task the Send error
then end task again and again.
what about the F1 when no keyboard
what about when you maximise a window and the make smaller is under the task bar to you have to move this to make your windows smaller
What about the folders not showing files extensions
man windows is such a piece of shit it not funny people.
what a fcken cck bill gates is!!!!
A screen that can scan a business card. How cool would that be on the next iPhone…
Think of the possibilities:
1) Go to the store, don’t know the price of the product — just put your iPhone up to the barcode and you know the price
2) Medical field – Physicians and nurses could use the iPhone to verify patient identities, medications, et cetera. Reducing medical errors, viewing PACS, et cetera, et cetera, cool…
The list goes on…
I’m using PithHelmet — no pics, no ads, no problems. But loading the MDN-site is always very sloooooooow.
@Curly:
You did. I’ve been spouting off about the potential of the patent for months on these pages. It’s US Patent App. #20060007222 ; the link is below.
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1;="20060007222".PGNR.&OS=DN/20060007222&RS=DN/20060007222
“[0011] Displays can then be combined with digital cameras in order to facilitate two-way communication. Typically, a small digital camera is placed in close proximity to a display. FIG. 2 shows an exemplary conventional two-way communication set-up 200. A digital camera 210 is mounted on top of a computer monitor 205 in order to capture the facial expressions of the user.
[0012] Digital images are generally captured with an integrated circuit having a charge-coupled devices (CCD) and/or complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor CMOS imagers. CCDs and CMOS imagers are specially made integrated circuits that respond to light. CCDs and CMOS imagers are used to capture image data in devices such as telescopes, bar code readers, digital still and video cameras, and scanners. A CCD is a collection of tiny light-sensitive diodes, which convert photons (light) into electrons (electrical charge). These diodes are called photosites. Each photosite is sensitive to light–the brighter the light that hits a single photosite, the greater the electrical charge that will accumulate at that site
[0014] The invention pertains to an integrated sensing display. The integrated sensing display includes both display elements and image sensing elements. As a result, the integrated sensing device can not only output images (e.g., as a display) but also input images (e.g., as a camera).