We just got a look at some amazing touchscreen interaction, running on a humble resistive touchscreen with some
OMAP hardware backing it up. Stantum's technology is a software-based refinement to resistive touchscreens that allows for accuracy beyond the pixel density of the display, a complete lack of touchscreen "jitters" and some fairly incredible input methods. Termed "TouchPark," the multitouch framework provides gesture recognition, cursor management and physics processing for phone builders to stick on top of the phone OS (Symbian, Windows Mobile and Android are currently supported), and works with hardware such as
Texas Instruments Zoom,
Freescale i.MX and ST Nomadic. The PMatrix multitouch firmware allows for unlimited inputs, detection of any contacting object (a finger, a stylus or even a paintbrush) and pressure sensitivity. We played with the demo unit for a bit and were frankly blown away, it's far and away the best touch experience we've ever seen or felt, and the multitouch functionality is just gravy on top. Stantum is targeting resistive touchscreens because they're still considerably cheaper to build than capacitive ones, and from our perspective there seems to be zero tradeoff -- for sensitivity and accuracy this destroys everything else we've seen on the market, capacitive or not. Sadly, there's no word on when this will make it into real, shipping handsets, but we'll certainly be tracking its progress obsessively. Video is after the break.
posted Feb 19th 2009 10:32AM
Wow.
Man that is awesome. I think the accuracy is what stuns me the most.
Wow indeed. All of the sudden Apple multitouch patent seems like a joke. Let's go back to resistive touchscreens! Please, oh PLEASE someone other than Apple implement this quickly. I LOVE my iPhone, but I REALLY hate Apple. So let's see HTC or one of the other big guys put this in!
Bill
haha, thats probably the sweetest comment i've seen in a while, i love my iphone but i hate apple. haha
I'm impressed
Amazing.....like a look in to the future....which I guess it is.....it will probably be multiple years before
we see this show up in a handset.......Apple is probably buying this company as we speak lol...if not they should be
Oh momma Im in fear for my wallet from the long arm of the touch!
That was..... AMAZING! The possibilites are incredible.
Why do they tease us so?
Give me that HTC (or Samsung or LG or whomever) and I'll give you my euros (some of them , at least)
that was amazing, i hope samsung or htc jump on this.
The most interesting thing is that its running software, not hardware. And its this smooth on an OMAP? Sure, its a new processor, but its still a cell-phone one. This would be excellent for tablet pc's too, since the touchscreen would be cheap, but it will be as good as a capacitive one. (Actually better, if we can take their word for it)
Hey, he said hi to me! I'm Sean lol. Okay sorry... anyway, the sensitivity and accuracy of that screen are incredible. I hope to see this technology make it into all resistive screen devices in the future. I would love for HTC to adopt it especially.
this might be way out of context but this guy sounds exactly like diego from the movie blow
capacitive touchscreen fanboyz get pwnd
umm. sure. "capacitive touchscreen fanboys".
things are getting out of control.
i'm waiting for the moment when the first spacebar and the first backspace fanboys are announced.
If apple bought this company before anybody else, then we will not be able to do multi touch for the next 20 years legally on any of the upcoming touchscreen phones except the locked down goddamn iphone.
Although Apple would not be allowed to do this.
Ever heard of monopolies? Apple then would be considered one, and not Microsoft.. for once.
I hope Nokia grabs this technology FAST. That is, of course, they do not want to be relevant in the near future...
Maybe Elevation could spot Palm a few milli again. After all they've been pretty loose w/ it in recent months.