MS, Mitsubishi tout translucent touchscreen concept
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Apple got there first? And it sounded such a smart idea too. Microsoft and Mitsubishi are developing a 'translucent' touchscreen. The idea: touching the back of the panel controls user interface elements displayed on the front. Cute, but the question to be asked is: where do all the electronics go?â¦
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The Nintendo DS includes a touch-sensitive screen and is geared for an older crowd.
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(InfoWorld) - Commuters in Tokyo are getting a chance to experience some cutting-edge display technology from Thursday -- although they might have to look hard to see it. On three commuter trains some traditional paper advertisements have been replaced with color e-paper displays. The displays, while technologically advanced, proved difficult to read during a demonstration Thursday. The 13.1-inch displays are made by Hitachi Ltd. and based on Bridgestone Corp.'s "electronic liquid powder" technology. There are two such displays on each of the three trains, mounted on the carriage wall at either end of the train. Each display is connected to a smaller unit which contains companion electronics and an 8MB memory that can hold 37 advertisements. Each advertisement is shown for two minutes in a continuous cycle. Electronic paper is still in its infancy. While it has been shown in prototype form for several, the technology has only recently started making its way into commercial products. One of the highest profile uses is Sony'sÂ Sony Reader electronic book, but it uses only a monochrome display. Color e-paper development lags. The displays in the trains offer relatively low resolution, at 50 dpi (dots per inch), and can only display eight colors. There's also no backlight, so on-screen images appeared quite dark and advertisements utilizing dark colors, such as red and black, were relatively difficult to read. Reflections on the display's protective plastic cover also caused problems. The month-long tests are relatively high-profile because the trains in question run on East Japan Railway's Yamanote Line, which runs in a loop around the center of Tokyo. It's used by about 3.5 million people each weekday, making it one of the city's most important and heavily used railway lines. The trial will gauge feedback from travellers and see how the system performs in a real-world environment, said Nobuyuki Ogura, a senior manager with Hitachi's transportation information systems division in Tokyo. They follow a trial last year in which a monochrome e-paper display replaced a wall poster at Tokyo Station, he said. Hitachi will continue working on the screens and hopes to have a commercial panel ready for use by March 2008, he said. The Yamanote Line has 52 trains and on each 11-car train there are 1,414 advertisements, for a total of 73,528 on the entire line. While 96 of the advertisements on each train are LCD displays, the rest must be changed by hand. The use of more digital advertisements would mean new content could be quickly transmitted to each display panel with little fuss. The trial system that begins Thursday includes the ability to update advertisements via a 802.11b wireless LAN link to the panels. Hitachi isn't the only company working on color e-paper. Earlier this yearÂ Fujitsu showed a prototype 7.8-inch panelÂ that can display up to 4,096 colors. The display, which is the same size as a sheet of A5 paper, was built into a thin case in the form of an electronic book reader and was on show at the Ceatec exhibition in October.
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Nokia has unveiled the Nokia NFC (near field communication) shell, which allows consumers to access services and exchange information with a touch gesture using NFC technology - a technology that emerged from the combination of contactless identification
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Microsoft is launching a new computer form factor that looks like a coffee table and has touchscreen and auto-sync capability.
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TAIPEI/SEOUL  - A new generation of super-thin,  power-sipping displays is making its way to the market,  stretching battery lives to new limits and perhaps one day  posing a challenge to heavier, energy-gobbling LCDs.
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Heliodisplay projects a convincing mid-air display.
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Researchers have created an electronic contact lens that could be used as a display or a medical sensor.
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Microsoft&#39;s newest offspring is called Surface, a tabletop operating system designed to turn an ordinary table into a dynamic surface that facilitates interaction with digital content through natural gestures and touch.
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Optical sensors and touch screens are  the leading technologies that cell phone makers are likely to  use as improvements to the tiny keypads on many of today's  handsets.
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The new dual-sensor approach helps improve live preview performance.
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TOKYO -- In the race for ever-thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all _ a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color video.
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I was pretty amazed to see 3D graphics coming to mobile phones, and now it looks like TV is coming to them too! Texas Instruments has started work on a chip that
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Mobile processor is designed for use in thin and light notebooks.
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Smoke and mirrors Comment Microsoft's calls its multitouch user interface Surface Computing "a new paradigm". We asked Britain's leading expert to examine the claim. - ed.â¦
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On the first official day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Sony Ericsson showed off its forthcoming touchscreen phone, the Xperia X1, its first Windows Mobile device.
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The latest version of Microsoft's mobile platform blurs the line between smartphones and connected PDAs.