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more about #synaptics more comments → Kaiser-Machead: Looks like something Bob Barker would want to use. more » Mikestan: Good thing its not Sentellic doing the innovation or touch screen technology would be in the stone age more » Noobs-R-Us: That woman has some serious man-fingers! more » tande04: It seems like if you give up the multitouch you're giving up the main benefit of a capacitive screen. more » deadrobot: Okay multi-finger touch is good for app development but seriously, how many times do you and a friend touch a screen at once? What kind of sick orgy ... more » GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE: Finger twister? There's an app for that Binary Digit-Blue! more » TheSonOfKrypton: I know with certainty that the iPhone can already recognize four fingers. Can it do more? Maybe, I don't know. Rather, the question should be: SHOU... more » AmphetamineCrown: It doesn't seem that often I see interface hardware that makes me go "wow." Wow. It seems like a vocabulary could be developed of very intuitive ges... more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Not really a big fan of the click-pad and I like the new MacBook keyboards even less. My trusty 15" G4 still has plenty of life left in it yet.. more » Révolution: Probably works like my ancient 2004 synaptics. It has 4 regions, and if it is regions on the left, left click, regions on the right, right click. It i... more » ZAPPO1123: Some of you seem to lack an adequate understanding of the patent system. The following will address that (well, at least somewhat): 1) Patents are fo... more » ph15h: It's always been capable... its just whether or not its been allowed by the OS or capable by programs. -_- Patents will probably stop large use. more » OMG! Ponies!: Use the kernel, Luke. more » myspace.com/airmanshirk: How are they working around apple's multi-touch patents.. i know for a fact the iphone holds over 200 patents, and a few of them are multi-touch. more » -
#cellphones
Fuse: What Your Next Touch Phone Is Going to Feel Like
Fuse is what Synaptics—who probably made the trackpad you're swirling your finger on, and maybe your phone's touchscreen—says the next generation of touch phones will be like: You'll be squeezing, touching and stroking the phone, all over. More » -
#touchscreens
Synaptics ClearPad 3000 Means 10 Fingers Multitouching Your Phone, Crazy New Gestures
The iPhone probably doesn't use Synaptics' original ClearPad capacitive screen multitouch technology, but maybe Apple will use the ClearPad 3000, since it registers ten fingers simultaneously. I hope they steal this three-finger crumple gesture at least, it's so cool: More » -
#trackpads
Synaptics Clickpad Brings the Clickable Trackpad Design to PCs
Synaptics Clickpad will bring the buttonless, clickable trackpad (found in the current MacBook line) to PC laptops, complete with their full suite of multitouch gestures. More » -
#clips
Android Runs Multitouch on the G1, Really
Without altering the kernel at all, good Samaritan Luke Hutch has gotten multitouch working in his own custom Android applications on the G1. More » -
