Multi-touch DS patent? And DSOrganize software makes a PDA out of it?
By Ryan Block 
posted Feb 27th 2006 3:45AM
posted Feb 27th 2006 3:45AM
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posted Feb 27th 2006 3:45AM
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If your not going to say anything constructive don't say anything at all. And before you call me a fanboy (which you obviously are) I have both systems and enjoy both of them for their merits.
To the dummy at the top: Being that the DS has a touchscreen, it can be more PDA-like than the PSP ever could. If I didn't already have a Treo, I'd seriously consider this new DSorganize software.
Woah
How much is a DS lite going for these days? This little device has just gone from invisible to a big blip on the radar
My Palm got wifi, and excelent handwriting recognition, and infrared (duh), oh and bluetooth. Guess I will stick with my Palm T|X for buisness and the DS for games.
Woa didnt Mac patent something of the sort already ? And what about those tablet PC's they have about the same thing. Anyways i have a PDA too and like the one above said i use it for buisness. It has soo much more that the DS can never do in a matter of applications. If i want something to game, no consoles or DS's for me its PC all the way.
Have fun typing out an email on your psp, The Father.
DSOrganize could be useful if it were easy to open and close, like the current setting menu for example.
This is something I've been wanting ever since I got my DS. I will defiantly be checking this out.
well if nintendo is to put this patent to use, they would probably have to ad some sort of suer grease rotector. as touhcing the screen gets it all greasy. u might not ntice how greasy and messed up urtouchads get on computers but that is because you dont need to see trough them. in fact if i am not mistakne the ds manual discourages putting your fingers to the screen. i think this would be a coll adittion o the next ds but they would definetly have to work some things out (and ut th y and x buttons baq, lol)
Being both a Nintendo DS fan and a Palm fan I want to make a correction. DS has two 256x192 screens for a grand total of 98,304 pixels. A good Palm has at least a 320x320 screen for 102,400 pixels and the bigger Palms have a bigger 320x480 screen for 153,600 pixels. For horsepower, DS probably wins due to its dedicated gfx/audio hardware.
Multi-touch would be great for a 3 Stooges game where you try to do a 2 finger poke at someones eyes.
This was first filed for in July 2004..
Damn, I was gonna make a multi touch homebrew demo...I guess i still will, it should be easy.
Matt, it won't work: the XY position is returned in a register by an internal function of the hardware. This function will calculate the median point of all the clicked zone so theorically, if you click on the far left and at the same time, at the far right, the calculated touched zone will be at the center of the screen.