Multitouch chipset firm N-trig have announced a partnership with Fujitsu to produce their next breed of DuoSense touchscreen controllers. The next-gen DuoSense system will not only be smaller than the existing version, but require less power and recognize “10 or more simultaneous touch points at very high refresh rates.”
Microsoft has taken part in a $24m funding package in N-Trig, manufacturers of multitouch-capable touch panels already in use in a number of Tablet PCs, in what looks to be a strategy to boost hardware support for Windows 7’s upcoming multitouch support. Back in November, however, the initial multitouch beta drivers from the company delivered a shockingly poor user experience on the Dell Latitude XT; N-Trig have recently released new drivers, and the experience seems – with an odd omission – much more successful.
N-Trig might not be as well known in the touchscreen tablet field as Wacom, but recently they’ve been pushed to the fore after their capacitive panels found their way into Dell’s Latitude XT and HP’s Touchsmart tx2. Those Tablet PC’s are just the beginning, though; according to Lenny Engelhardt, VP of business development at N-Trig, we can expect to see traditional notebooks with multitouch-capable displays next year, together with new gesture support. That will include “multitouch buttons”, an on-screen palette of app-specific tools intended for fingertip use.
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