The excitement sparked by Apple iPhone's touch screen has created much hype about projected capacitive touch technology. However, in terms of market share or applications, projected capacitive touch ...

In the grand scheme of things, one millimeter may not seem like a lot, but in the smartphone arms race toward ever-slimmer devices, measurements like that matter. Synaptics, best known for building ...

The global capacitive touchscreen market is set to experience unprecedented growth in the coming decade, with a valuation projected to rise from USD 15,979.9 million in 2024 to an impressive USD ...

Plastic Logic, the company that struck up a deal with Barnes & Noble for an e-book reader, on Monday unveiled a capacitive touchscreen e-book reader named Que. The device will have a letter-sized (8.5 ...

Capacitive touch sensing has been traditionally used as a design differentiating technology to enable superior aesthetic designs for automotive infotainment applications. With devices maturing to the ...

Capacitive touch sensors are entirely in the domain of DIY, requiring little more than a carefully-chosen conductive surface and a microcontroller. This led [John Phillips] to ask why not embed such ...

Windows Mobile 6.5 may have received a somewhat lacklustre reception on its launch yesterday, but that has not stopped plenty of hardware manufacturers choosing to announce devices running it. HTC has ...

Dell is bringing back the XPS laptop brand, and has redesigned the system to remove the controversial capacitive function row ...

Electromechanical switches are simple, cheap, and widely available (Fig. 1). However, they’re also plagued with a number of disadvantages, including wear with repeated use, and the potential for ...

Welcome back to our three-part series on touchscreen technology. Last time, Florence Ion walked you through the technology’s past, from the invention of the first touchscreens in the 1960s all the way ...

You can’t have a touch sensitive switch without a way to detect the presence of a finger! A touch sensor, especially a capacitive touch sensor, has some surprisingly sophisticated electronics to ...