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    Microsoft and Mitsubishi's NanoTouch Technology Lets You Work Your Gadget From Behind

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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    12/20/08

    In reply to Microsoft and Mitsubishi's NanoTouch Technology Lets You Work Your Gadget From Behind
    I really really like this. For one, like it points out, you don't have to have your fat fingers covering up the screen whenever you're using it. In addition, it fixes my biggest complaint with touchscreen technology, which is the fact that your fingers necessarily smudge up the screen. This fixes both of those problems and I for one cannot wait for such a technology to be implemented in a device that I can get.
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    12/20/08

    In reply to Microsoft and Mitsubishi's NanoTouch Technology Lets You Work Your Gadget From Behind
    If the screen is translucent.. where will the battery and the hardware go? Not behind the screen, but besides it... so the device will become bigger?
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    Image of xanderbeedle xanderbeedle
    12/20/08

    In reply to Microsoft and Mitsubishi's NanoTouch Technology Lets You Work Your Gadget From Behind
    Wasn't apple awarded the patent for this system a year or two ago?
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    Image of dallasmay2 dallasmay2
    12/20/08

    @xanderbeedle: I remember that too. But some times companies can get away with copying a patent if they do it in a different way. We'll see how that works out
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    Image of NatalieClio NatalieClio
    12/20/08

    @xanderbeedle: @dallasmay2:

    Apple's patent has a touch interface on the back of a device and shows the location of your finger with a moving dot on the front screen . . . it isn't translucent and so you can put the battery etc. in between . . . a much better solution.
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    Image of TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.
    12/20/08

    @NatalieClio: Except someone made functioning transparent batteries two years ago, and transparent circuit boards just a few weeks ago =P
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/20/08

    In reply to Microsoft and Mitsubishi's NanoTouch Technology Lets You Work Your Gadget From Behind
    I'm sorry but I'm not one of those guys who likes working his gadget from behind.


    Not that there's anything wrong with it.

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    Image of tamoko tamoko
    12/20/08

    In reply to Microsoft and Mitsubishi's NanoTouch Technology Lets You Work Your Gadget From Behind
    Sweet tech...It always made sense to have this kind of interface setup. I've been playing old school Doom on my iTouch for weeks, it's a pain to have the controls overlaid over the screen.


    A friend of mine works for a large (nameless) aerospace and miliraty contractor, and he's been dealing a lot with touch screen interfaces, and the infamous Surface interface. Lot's of cool ideas in the pipe.

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    Image of shorty6049 shorty6049
    12/20/08

    @tamoko: nameless? i dont think touchscreen technology is any sort of national secret, is it?
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    Image of tamoko tamoko
    12/20/08

    @shorty6049: For him to keep his job.. I'd rather not say. He works in R&D for a defense contractor and some of his fellow engineers might read The Giz. Companies tend to get weird when it comes to proprietary ideas that might trickle down to lucrative consumer products.
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    Image of Jay Rock Jay Rock
    12/20/08

    In reply to Microsoft and Mitsubishi's NanoTouch Technology Lets You Work Your Gadget From Behind
    Score for Microsoft! :)

    see, its going to be nano in the back an multi touch on the front....

    SIN! :)
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/20/08

    @Jay Rock: So it's an iPod with a mullet.
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    Image of wallywallyy2k wallywallyy2k
    10/30/08

    In reply to Translucent OLEDs Go Large, Turn Your Windows into Crappy TVs
    Is it just me or does that appear to be a one way display as well! You wouldn't want your neighbours seeing you watch Flash Dance at two in the morning...
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    Image of Gann Gann
    10/30/08

    @wallywallyy2k: It could easily be backed by electrochromic glass.
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    Image of Ethan Allison Ethan Allison
    10/30/08

    In reply to Translucent OLEDs Go Large, Turn Your Windows into Crappy TVs


    What's wrong with projection?

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    10/30/08

    @Ethan Allison: Perspective. Or more precisely, lack of.
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