N-Trig launching software to enable more versatile multi-touch displays
From the iPhone to Microsoft Surface, multi-touch displays are one of the most fashionable new user-interface technologies.
N-trig, an Israeli company, hopes to make displays even more versatile by allowing them to respond to input from both fingers and pens. Usually, it’s one or the other. Capacitive-touch screens work via small electrical fields that respond to human touch. They usually don’t work with a stylus or pen. And the screens that work with pens don’t work… Continue Reading
With a big N-trig investment, Microsoft is racing Apple to multi-touch
The keyboard has been around since the 19th century. The mouse is 40 years old. Yet we still use both as our main points of interaction with computers, even as their technology grows by leaps and bounds each year. But a new $24 million investment, led by none other than Microsoft, in Israeli startup N-trig, points to a different future for input mechanisms.
N-trig already provides a range of touchscreen technology to companies like Dell and… Continue Reading