On the subject of touchscreens..
I have another little cartoon RANT, and questionnaire up that I’d like to invite comments on..
Each time I use a Tablet Pc, or my giant Cintiq Tablet.. I find myself wishing… darn! I wish this thing had capacitive touch! ( The type of touch screen found in most Android phones, and most famously, Mapple’s eye-phone.) I keep thinking that there has to be a simple solution to adding touch capability to any screen.. but is is small, portable…? Easy to use? I throw the question forward to the internets, along with some little drawings of what I think such a device should be.. (send any royalties, random technology parts, foodstuffs, liquor, and or love / hate mail c/o Chad Essley, under that tree in the rain, Stumptown OR)
La la la..
-C
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Mac
December 2, 2009 at 11:37 am //
Sounds kinda like the Infra-Red Keyboard…
floe
December 3, 2009 at 8:42 am //
A pretty similar idea was in our research paper on “inverted FTIR” from ITS 2009 this year, see video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARvtruxJDH4
Quentin Burt
December 3, 2009 at 9:13 am //
Well, it’s not that crazy of an idea… HP’s “Touchsmart” computers use a two-camera (each on a corner) system and triangulate finger position from that.
Anders Frihagen
December 3, 2009 at 9:16 am //
has been none:
http://www.iogear.com/product/GPEN200N/
steliosm
December 3, 2009 at 9:52 am //
Hello.
You could just go on and use a touch screen panel/film if you don’t need multi-touch capabilities. The cheap ones are resistive vs capacitive (the ones iPhone have).
SOOPERGOOMAN187
December 3, 2009 at 12:20 pm //
This brought a smile to my face. Something similar to ur idea does exist but would not be practicle for a tablet. All that WiiMote tracking stuff thats floating around the internerds. I’ll tweet this for you if you like…..
cartoonmonkey
December 3, 2009 at 1:05 pm //
Thanks guys! Yeah, ultimately, I’d like to avoid an overlay..don’t need multitouch either.
I realize this is a silly post, and I’m fairly familiar with most of the technology out there..but I thought.. Who better than the Hack A Day readers to know about or figure out something that might work?! Cheers everybody. And welcome to the blog. I try and do a drawing a day for my own personal online sketchbook here, and I rant about tablets / technology and stuff on occasion.. so welcome!