Comments on: New Jeff Han Video of their Multi-Touch Display

By: avi

avi — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:25:47 +0000

“The x60 was out in 2006, apple released the iphone in 2007…”

You must be under the mistaken impression that Apple invented multi-touch. It did not. I’ll just re-state that the term multi-touch is deceptive if it doesn’t mean you can touch the screen with more than one finger or device at a time.

By: DRTigerlilly

DRTigerlilly — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:19:52 +0000

Lenovo has been using the mulittouch name from their x60 model & it meant as the previous poster mentioned, pen or finger use.

The x60 was out in 2006, apple released the iphone in 2007…

By: etjazz

etjazz — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:18:58 +0000

Hi, maybe a miss-implemented feature in windows driver problem? I’m looking for a datasheet of the lenovo multitouch technology but I can’t find it anywhere.

By: avi

avi — Wed, 16 May 2007 18:12:08 +0000

Multi-touch, in the context of using your fingers on a display, means you can use more than one. And in fact, you can’t even use the pen and a finger at the same time on that system — you can use one OR the other — so there’s nothing "multi" about it. They might as well claim you could use your whole hand, but only one finger at a time.
It’s misleading.

Now, you can argue that the better term of art for using multiple fingers simultaneously would be "poly-touch," but I think that’s a tough sell. The "touch" part of "multi-touch" implies fingers, not pens. Otherwise, Lenovo’s system might better called "multi-instrument" or maybe "write-n-touch" (which should still say ‘or’).

By: willpower102

willpower102 — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:54:36 +0000

Somehow with all your experience you even considered the idea that this almost infantile multitouch technology was in the lenovo. Multitouch in tablets describes the ability to use both a passive and active digitizer, eg. you don’t have to pull the pen out to quickly navigate some menus. It is a fantastic next step in laptop development.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:00:48 +0000

thx for the link!