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New Sharp touchscreen could aid iPhone, future notebooks and other products
Friday, August 31, 2007 - 10:11 AM EDT

"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 320x480 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.

MacDailyNews Take: Who wouldn't want to see a Mac multi-touch iTablet?

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Aug 31, 07 - 10:23 am Comment from: ignatz

see me,
feel me,
touch me,
- - -
heal me.

mw : "three"

Aug 31, 07 - 10:30 am Comment from: obvious

iWouldn't

Aug 31, 07 - 10:55 am Comment from: Zune Tang

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.

Your potential. Our passion.™

Aug 31, 07 - 10:56 am Comment from: January 24, 1984

Placed against the skin for instant biometrics. Medical tricorder, here we come!

Aug 31, 07 - 11:10 am Comment from: Andy Logie

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???

Aug 31, 07 - 11:10 am Comment from: Apple-Mat

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...

Aug 31, 07 - 11:14 am Comment from: ibookfast

works fine for me using Safari beta 3.0.3

Aug 31, 07 - 11:27 am Comment from: dirtydave

@Andy, yup me too

Aug 31, 07 - 11:32 am Comment from: Gil

Zune Tang,

STFU. Mighty Mouse (both wired and wireless) are actually 3 buttons plus a scroll wheel that goes 360 degrees.

Aug 31, 07 - 11:36 am Comment from: @Andy Logie

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.

Aug 31, 07 - 11:51 am Comment from: Rick

Shitty site indeed. Get a clue MDN. Take off the blinders for a minute one of these days and fix the friggin site.

Aug 31, 07 - 11:56 am Comment from: truthfind

Zune Tang.... BWAAAAHHHAAAA!!!!!!!

Well done- I needed that. Gotta love sarcasm as art grin

[dorks..{chuckles under breath}]

Aug 31, 07 - 11:58 am Comment from: Not bill

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.

Aug 31, 07 - 12:02 pm Comment from: curley

I thought I remember seeing an apple patent on phot sensors within the pixels of screens.

Aug 31, 07 - 12:03 pm Comment from: No Squirt For You

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.)

Aug 31, 07 - 12:05 pm Comment from: iYann

Say hello to iChat AV on the iPhone

Aug 31, 07 - 12:06 pm Comment from: Majikthize

Gil,

I've got three words for you:

"sarcasm and irony"

Aug 31, 07 - 12:07 pm Comment from: Col. Angus

This could be good for teaching adolescents how to find and work the magic button. Stroke here...pinch there....

Aug 31, 07 - 12:56 pm Comment from: awesome.. Zuntang is a dork

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

Aug 31, 07 - 01:02 pm Comment from: awesome

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!!!!

Aug 31, 07 - 01:14 pm Comment from: ken1w

A screen that can scan a business card. How cool would that be on the next iPhone...

Aug 31, 07 - 01:33 pm Comment from: NCMacMan

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...

Aug 31, 07 - 02:12 pm Comment from: Johan

I'm using PithHelmet -- no pics, no ads, no problems. But loading the MDN-site is always very sloooooooow.

Aug 31, 07 - 03:39 pm Comment from: CWeb

@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

Aug 31, 07 - 04:21 pm Comment from: iYann

"[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).

Aug 31, 07 - 04:45 pm Comment from: Camel Milk Drinker

What is this fetish with tablets?

Just drink Camel's Milk!!!

Aug 31, 07 - 11:02 pm Comment from: user847

If anyone reads this, go to prefs in Safari and under security.. turn off - plug-ins, Java & Javascript. MDN loads like a normal website.

Sep 02, 07 - 02:07 am Comment from: drmacnut

This whole touch-screen thing has barely scratched the surface of what's to come.

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