The Series 7 SC770 Touch Monitor is Samsung's first multi-touch display optimized for Windows 8. Supporting up to 10 points of simultaneous multi-touch, users can drag, rotate or select objects on the monitor using their fingers.
The flexible, ergonomic stand of the SC770 conveniently adjusts to user preferences, offering a 60-degree tilt for comfortable use of the touch display. Additionally, the ultra-thin bezel along with wide viewing angles provides a truly immersive viewing experience.
Fingers have many “modes” - they do not just poke, as contemporary
touchscreen interaction would suggest, but also flick, rub, knock,
grasp, and can perform many other actions.
Qeexo wants to bring new dimensions of touch to interactive surfaces, and make better use of the natural richness of our hands.
Disney Research labs are developing a new technology designed to recognize users thanks to their "capacitive fingerprint". This new technology measures the impedance of a user to the environment by sweeping across a range of AC frequencies.
Different people have different bone densities and muscle mass, they
wear different clothes and footwear, and so on. This, in turn, yields
different impedance profiles, which allows attribute touch events and
multitouch gestures to a particular user.
Freescale is announcing a new industrial touch sensing technology that'll even sense your swipes and prods through a film of water.
Xtrinsic 3.0 is designed to be used in industrial, medical and in-car
systems, with pre-built user interfaces ready to be added to any device
its jammed inside. In addition to being able to work through water, it
can withstand noise, detect electrical interference and reduce false
touches. It's being demonstrated at the company's technology forum in
India from today, presumably ready to be licensed by passing equipment
manufacturers in short order.
Samsung started off its case today by going straight at the
heart of Apple's utility patents, showing off two software systems with
similar functionality that pre-date iOS altogether. Adam Bogue,
president of Circle 12, showed off images and video of a
projection-based touchscreen surface called the DiamondTouch Table.
Developed in 2001 at the Mitsubishi Electronic Research Laboratory
(MERL), the DiamondTouch featured two particularly-relevant pieces of
software: Fractal Zoom, an application that allowed users to manipulate
images using multiple fingers, and Tablecloth.
The latter allows users to pull an image down in a window, revealing a
duplicate image right above it; letting go causes the image to snap
back to its original position, providing a visual effect that appeared
quite similar to Apple's bounce-back effect. The DiamondTouch was easily
accessible in the MERL lobby for anyone to access, leaving open the
possibility that anyone in Cupertino could have seen the device — in
fact, Bogue revealed that he'd even given a demonstration to Apple
itself in 2003.
