A film that will make it a multi-touch screen in any plane just by pasting it is under development

Apple's "IPhone"And Lenovo's"ThinkPad X100e"The number of devices equipped with multi-touch compatible screens and pads has increased, but it was a drawback that the mechanism would be slightly expensive due to the complicated mechanism.

Also, the size of the screen tends to be a bottleneck. I told you at GIGAZINEVirtual screen input system for mobile phoneAs with the pseudo touch screen that draws the keyboard and the input area on the plane with a laser like the one like, it is easy to make the size big, but the accuracy becomes a problem this time.

Therefore, we are researching and developing a film that makes a multi-touch screen for every plane just by pasting a company.

Details are below.
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According to the official page of Portuguese company Displax, it is currently under development that a film that will make every plane / curved surface a multi touch screen just by sticking. In addition to being able to distinguish up to 16 contact points, it also feels the flow of air on the surface, so it responds even if you breathe in.

The film under development is available for planes of non-conductive material from diagonal 35 centimeters to 3 meters, is about 100 microns thick and thinner and lighter than paper. Because it is completely transparent, it is also possible to use such as changing all aspects of the show window to touch panel.


The thickness of the plane that can be used is up to 15 mm because it is applied to the back side of the plane rather than touching directly by touching the film, but if it is a common window glass etc. this is enough . It has been developed primarily for application to projection displays and LCDs, but various other uses are likely to be considered.

The single touch version has already been commercialized and it is used in various places.

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