Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Touchco was a New York company that, according to it's now closed website title, was developing "IFSR* multi-touch resistive sensors". It has now reportedly ben bought by Amazon.
The impressive thing about this technology is this.
"Unlike the more common and more expensive capacitive touchscreens, Touchco-equipped screens can be used with a ...
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Call me a heretic, but surely there's got to be something inherently awry (not to say anything about accessibility) with a device that has to have specialised, modified clothing for humans to use it! Just sayin.
[Etre Touchy - Gloves for your iPhone, iPod Touch, Nintendo DS, Blackberry, PDA and more...]
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Related ...
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Saturday, December 19th, 2009
It seems RIM's 'optical pad' technology could offer hope for the "touch barrier" that exists with the requirement for skin to touch the capacitive type pads that dominate todays gadgets.
Thinking about how your phone's touchscreen operates, you might assume that the so-called optical pads that have been making appearances on ...
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
An article in Technology Review reveals development of pressure sensitive touch pads that could be used on future generation devices.
Why is this Lifekludger newsworthy? Because the pads are reported to combine features of both kinds of existing touch pads. To me, this might mean some breaking down of the Touch ...
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
Reuters reported last month on Apple ordering larger touch screens:
Taiwan touchscreen specialist Wintek already makes small screens for Apple iPhones, and has received orders for the larger ones that are roughly the same size as those used in mini PCs - [http://www.wintek.com.tw/]
I bet you'll still need skin!
Source [Apple orders ...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
"Accessibility is about accommodating characteristics a person cannot change by providing options" -- Joe Clarke, 2001
* An outline
* some ideas in olpc first look was promising
* accessibility and usability are hardware issues too
* accessibility should venture out of the online space into hardware design
Last year I had a first look ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
pogo no go
After writing an article about my concerns over the pervasive use of touch I was alerted via a comment to the pogo stylus [thanks @garthk] .
The Touch Barrier
pogo stylus
I thought it might've been a solution so I wrote to "Ten One Design" outlining why I'm so interested.
The response ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Recently I was made aware of a program called Pointui while scanning Frank Arrigo's blog (hi Frank). I thought it sounded interesting if for no other reason than the screenshot looked to provide bigger buttons. So I visited the Pointui site.
Pointui is a interface layer for Windows Mobile based devices. ...
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