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Sounds like this might be a cheap way to the touchscreens that Windows 8 users will be demanding. It is absolutely not going to make any sense at all to ship a

Sounds like this might be a cheap way to the touchscreens that Windows 8 users will be demanding. It is absolutely not going to make any sense at all to ship a Windows 8 laptop without a touchscreen, though as seems to be the case sometimes, maybe we can expect Apple to blaze a trail and put a (larger) touch surface on the MBP line.

jamesbritt 15y ago
Windows touchscreen laptops are old news. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140385/Review_3_Windows_7_touch_screen_laptops http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140385/Review_3_Wind... Said items with a suitable OS are a different story
Someone 15y ago
I think the question is still on whether touch screens are a good idea for laptop screens. Even when used on the lap, with the screen almost horizontal, I have my doubts; I think the screen may be too far away from the body to prevent gorilla arm syndrome. With the laptop on a table, that risk increases. On the other hand, A laptop with a rotatable screen that can be transformed into a tablet would benefit from a touch screen.
joezydeco 15y ago
This stuff looks too coarse to use as a laptop controller. Watch the second video at 1:04, the cursor is way off from where he pointed. The cheaper Chinese procap screens use single-axis sensing wires which kind of correlates to what they're describing here. If you can make a massive 167-inch display, you need a hell of a lot of room to carry your Y-axis signals back to the controller. So you go punt and just make very long X-axis sensors. These kind of controllers, um, work, in most normal cases. I just don't see anything in the demo videos showing any kind of precision. Procap displays also tend to need a lot of TLC when placed over a live noisy LCD display, which probably explains why all of these demos are using rear-projection video (except maybe the last one?)

jamesbritt 15y ago

Windows touchscreen laptops are old news. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140385/Review_3_Windows_7_touch_screen_laptops http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140385/Review_3_Wind... Said items with a suitable OS are a different story

Someone 15y ago

I think the question is still on whether touch screens are a good idea for laptop screens. Even when used on the lap, with the screen almost horizontal, I have my doubts; I think the screen may be too far away from the body to prevent gorilla arm syndrome. With the laptop on a table, that risk increases. On the other hand, A laptop with a rotatable screen that can be transformed into a tablet would benefit from a touch screen.

joezydeco 15y ago

This stuff looks too coarse to use as a laptop controller. Watch the second video at 1:04, the cursor is way off from where he pointed. The cheaper Chinese procap screens use single-axis sensing wires which kind of correlates to what they're describing here. If you can make a massive 167-inch display, you need a hell of a lot of room to carry your Y-axis signals back to the controller. So you go punt and just make very long X-axis sensors. These kind of controllers, um, work, in most normal cases. I just don't see anything in the demo videos showing any kind of precision. Procap displays also tend to need a lot of TLC when placed over a live noisy LCD display, which probably explains why all of these demos are using rear-projection video (except maybe the last one?)