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LG.Philips dives into the multi-touch display game at CES 2008, seen here running Google Earth. Coolness indeed, but LG's idea of mounting dual IR-sensitive cameras on either side of the display is still flawed.
LG.Philips dives into the multi-touch display game at CES 2008, seen here running Google Earth. Coolness indeed, but LG's idea of mounting dual IR-sensitive cameras on either side of the display is still flawed.Since it's such a big screen, its two-point moving and zooming is not exactly an iPhone finger pinch, and zooming out requires two hands and a rather elaborate movement to get any action.
The screen isn't quite as sensitive as the iPhone's, so double-clicking is iffy. It didn't work about 60% of the time. As a home product, it'd probably wear you out with all that requisite arm flapping and gesturing. Add that to the fingerprint problem when messy kids want to play with it during their peanut butter-and-jelly lunch, and this could get old pretty fast. Even so, it's definitely a hoot to use, and will probably soon see lots of play in info kiosks and advertising panels.
Reporting and video by Curtis Walker
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hmmm....seems unresponsive
Yeah, back to the QA department on those sensors.
Oh my Lord. This is THE CRUMMIEST multi touch display I've ever witnessed. *Runs to go hug his iPhone*.
What were they using on CNN last night during the debates? That looked like a giant Iphone
That's what I don't get about touchscreens. A mouse and keyboard is so much more convenient if you think about it. I bet if touchscreens had come first right now CES would be abuzz with talk of a new technology called the "mouse" that would revolutionise computers by allowing to control a cursor on the screen with only one hand, doing away with the tiring and wasteful movements! Woohoo!
what are these messy lids you speak of?
fingerprint problem when messy lids want to play with it
Yeah just throw the messy lids in the dish washer...
lids? Okie Dokies...Kids I thinks...then again they are sometimes lids anyway.
Yeah...CNN last night was the pits, they could not get the touch screen to work properly.
that thing is really bad
The next Bond villian needs one of these (one that works I mean) to plot his global domination.
@Bowler Hat: "That's what I don't get about touchscreens. A mouse and keyboard is so much more convenient if you think about it."
Not if the touch screen (and the underlying OS) is made for it. The sensitivity of the iPhone's touchscreen and how it relates to its OS is a perfect example of how it should work correctly. As far as smudges are concerned, you have to divorce yourself from the idea that screens aren't meant to be touched in fear of a smudge. Believe me, the usefulness of a good touchscreen and matching OS far outweighs the smudge factor.
hes comment at the end makes me wanna puke "if this was in real time, you could see the tops of their heads" didn't he understand he was talking to proffesion journalists that have been around the block, not 7 year old tourists. If it was in real time, it would cost millions to have a camera streaming and focusing its camera at one spot, and Google Earth pulls pre-stitched photos, not updates. Fail. I hate it just for the crappy booth guy
@EnochLight: I have no issues with smudges. I won't deny that the iPhone is a wonderful device, and indeed for handheld devices multitouch is an much-needed innovation. However, I was not referring to the iPhone; my tirade of sorts was directed at the subject of Charlie's post, the gigantic television with multi-touch, which in my opinion is just plain redundant. It may be useful and cool to be able to zoom in and out of an image by pinching your fingers on a phone, but on something as big as a television, when a mouse an keyboard are available, multitouch seems like little more than an interesting novelty.
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