Skinput sends skin crawling
Resistive touchscreens are currently losing ground to capacitive screens, but the folks at the Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft are collaborating on a new touchscreen which will see action on your body, known as Skinput. What makes that different is its ability to recognize what body part you have tapped, and based on the sound [...]
Amazon acquires Touchco
Amazon has purchased Touchco recently in order to boost their portfolio and strengthen their position as the top e-book reader seller at that point in instance, as they are certainly feeling threatened with the Apple iPad’s recent announcement. Why Touchco? For starters, that company offers cheap multitouch panels that retail for around $10 per square [...]