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    Quanta and 3M’s DST touchscreens like styli and fingers too

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Quanta and 3M's DST touchscreens like styli and fingers tooSpend a few days with a capacitive touch device and moving back to resistive can feel a bit... clumsy. Quanta and 3M are saying they have created a new type of touch sensitive screen that could make capacitive feel relatively just as vague, what they're calling dispersive signal technology. DST is a layer of "specially-designed glass" that detects the pressure of a finger or a stylus (or, probably, other things too) with high precision, all without making the display thicker. We're not sure how another layer could not make things at least a little bit beefier, but it at least won't be an expensive addition, with DigitTimes saying "consumers should have no difficulty accepting the price." There are, however, no comments on how well consumers will handle the other stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, and depression. Remember, we're here for you.

    Quanta and 3M's DST touchscreens like styli and fingers too originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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