http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/ Engadget Comments for Stantum shows off resistive multitouch Slate PC, we're awed again http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/ Capacitive, period]]>Nov 27th 2009 6:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 6:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/
Not the current ones sadly. I will start agreeing you when something like this comes in the market and becomes wide spread]]>Nov 27th 2009 6:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 7:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/On my HTC Touch Pro, if I miss the corner button I can almost always get it on the second try.

But on my iPhone, when I have a rearrangeable list (with the small draggable "bumps" on the right), it takes me 10 to 20 tries because the capacitive display is not accurate enough to tell whether I'm trying to drag the item or trying to select it -- particularly because the draggable area is at the very edge of the screen.]]>Nov 27th 2009 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/
I recently had the horrible time of playing with a sligtly older HTC phone (can't quite remember the model) and it was horrible, and innacurate without the stylus.

The iphone's done a good job, but I'll still continue to try my devices first.. and like any sensible person, If i find a resistive screen to be as good/better than a capacitive.. I'll go for it.
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The screen bezel is a pain in the ass on ANY touch screen technology. I know because I put up with it for a year when I had an HTC Wizard, and tried using the hacked on HTC virtual keyboard. The edge letters, and the close button were annoying because of that. When I switched to a phone with a flush screen a couple of years ago (HTC Vogue) that problem completely disappeared.

In short, you don't know what you're talking about. ;)

Personally, I'll take the Stantum technology, allowing me to use a paintbrush, and having sub-pixel resolution, over any capacitive screen.

Ran pretty fluid on a lowly Atom proc too... I hope screen kits come out.]]>Nov 27th 2009 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 6:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/
wait when did the iphone get pressure sensitive touch or the ablity to work with non fleash fingers


troll is a troll]]>Nov 27th 2009 7:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Look, I'm going to bite here because it gives me a chance to explain technology.

Resistive touchscreens work on the principle of pressure. Push on the surface and voila, the device recognizes your imput. This makes it easy to record precise imputs with a stylus, but hard to recognize imputs like your finger when trying to hit small areas, such as a corner.

Capacitive touchscreens rely on a conductive surface touching them-- usually your body. They don't rely on pressure, so you don't have to push hard, but they also don't handle precise control well, and you have to buy special conductive styli to get them to recognize handwriting. They also don't work if you're wearing gloves, or if you want to use an object like a paintbrush. However, up until now, it was hard for resistive screens to do multi-touch.

This is a proof of concept that shows that it can be done. The iPhone uses capacitive screens, as do an growing number of touch-based devices. So you are correct in believing the iPhone can do multi-touch.

You are hands-down wrong, however, in believing that it can accept input from a person wearing gloves, from a typical stylus, from a paintbrush, or that it can differentiate between certain amounts of pressure.

Personally, I think that the ability to have pressure-sensitive multi-touch is important. It could differentiate between a real keystroke and a bump in the pocket. It would allow you to use a real paintbrush with varying amounts of pressure much as you would on a canvas. In short, if the technology pans out, it would likely be far more versatile that capacitive.

of course, mixing the two would probably be the best bet...]]>Nov 27th 2009 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/
But, I'm wondering if this is a combination of resistive and capacitive technologies. I never saw more than one non-conductive implement used at a time, and it could only detect one pressure level, not one for every multitouch finger.

Here's how I could see it working... have a resistive sensor on top of the capacitive sensor. Then, it can detect as many finger inputs as their capacitive sensor can handle, and that also explains their resistive sensor not needing calibration - fingers automatically calibrate it to the capsensor. Now, when you're pushing multiple points on a resistive display, you end up getting an average of those points... so, all you have to do is add in the skew from what's known on the capsensor, and you can detect one non-conductive object in addition to all of your conductive objects.

I've suggested that approach before, actually, somewhere...]]>Nov 27th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/
http://www.stantum.com/en/offer/technology-ip

Looks like I was wrong, they basically divide the panel up into a row/column-addressed resistive display. It does mean that there's a hard upper limit on precision, but they're saying that they're pixel-precise, so they're obviously able to make the resistive "cells" small enough to not matter.]]>Nov 27th 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 6:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/And, you can use it with gloves!]]>Nov 27th 2009 6:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 6:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 6:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/
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I'm sure more exciting touch screen developments are around the corner - very hot R&D topic at the moment!]]>Nov 27th 2009 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/]]>Nov 27th 2009 6:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/
You can see a video of it here, running on a mobile sized screen, with all the same features. Actually, the mobile apps looked almost identical to this Dell Mini test.

http://www.rgbfilter.com/?p=304]]>Nov 27th 2009 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/]]>Nov 28th 2009 12:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 7:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Yes indeedy, I want one yesterday!

]]>Nov 27th 2009 7:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 7:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 7:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/
Next version of Maemo should have this.]]>Nov 27th 2009 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/
He then died.]]>Nov 27th 2009 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/in a bizarre unexplained accident ]]>Nov 27th 2009 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/
apple should make one so everyone would feel a tremendous urge to buy them all of the sudden heh]]>Nov 27th 2009 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Is there any way to make capacitive pressure sensitive?]]>Nov 27th 2009 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/
Debating the state of something as it stands today doesn't really have an impact in a conversation about future tech. I'll agree- capacitive today is better than resistive today.

Tommorrow? If this tech spends another year or so in development, it will lead the way for tablets of the future. Imagine the posibilities of having the benefits of capacitive (namely, multi-touch and small responce area) with all the benefits of resistive. Tell me an iTablet wouldn't be better if you could take hand-written notes or use your studio paintbrushes to paint as you would on a canvas. ]]>Nov 27th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Nov 27th 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/]]>Nov 27th 2009 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/Is it possible that the responsivity of the screens drops down if the size of the screen goes up? Capacitive screen works perfect on iPhone screen and recent HTC handsets, but how the capcitive concept works if it is used on a screens which are 5-10 times bigger than the phone screen?]]>Nov 27th 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/stantum-shows-off-resistive-multitouch-slate-pc-were-awed-agai/
Our technology runs from 100Hz up to 250Hz and over, depending on the implementation, and the scanning rate is consistent when multiple touches are detected. Capacitive touch-screens' response is slower, and decreasing when adding touches. If you happen to visit Mobile World Congress in Febuary (Barcelona, Spain), do not hesitate to try our demos at our booth to make yourself an idea.

Best,
The Stantum Team]]>Jan 5th 2010 2:18PM