CPT Claims "World's Largest" Capacitive Touch Panel
CPT Claims "World's Largest" Capacitive Touch Panel
Posted 12/15/2009 at 10:00am
| by Paul Lilly
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Thanks in part to native support in Windows 7 and falling LCD panel pricing (price fixing allegations notwithstanding), the time is right for touch technology to really take off on the desktop. Enter Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), the Taiwan-based panel maker who just launched a 21.5-inch projected capacitive touch panel.
Details remain pretty sparse, but according to Wolf Chen, VP of CPT, the 21-5-inched panel is currently being validated by clients. But that's not all the company has been up to. CPT said it has also started shipping 10.1-inch projective capacitive touch panels and 3D panels.
The company isn't putting all its eggs into one capacitive basket, however, and is also developing touch panels using two other technologies, including optical touch and in-cell photo sensing. Panels built around these two technologies will start shipping in early 2010, the company says.
Image Credit: Susie Pan, Digitimes
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DasHellMutt
December 15, 2009 at 1:20pm
Not only that, touch on the desktop has no future. Its just a gimick designed to elicit attention. Who realy wants to reach out and touch their monitor constantly? Its ergonomically a horrible idea and won't last.
mesiah
December 15, 2009 at 9:04pm
For day to day desktop and website navigation this is true. But for manipulating 3D models and certain games touch control is unbelievable. If you doubt me, just watch some of the demos of microsofts table playing RTS games. You couldn't get quick controls like that with a mouse and keyboard.
The tech will never replace mouse and keyboard, but I think eventually it will work along side them in high end systems. I would like to see 2 monitor system, once positioned vertically for viewing and one horizontally for touch control, with a keyboard mounted under the touch screen. If someone makes it, I will buy it.
Digital-Storm
December 15, 2009 at 2:51pm
That and all the smudges. It would be a nightmare for any gamer or movie watcher!
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