Amazon buys touchscreen startup Touchco, merging with Kindle division
Ross Miller, Engadget, 2/3/2010
Amazon Said to Buy Touch Start-Up
Nick Bilton and Brad Stone, New York Times, 2/3/2010
Is Amazon Building a SuperKindle?
Nick Bilton, NYT, 2/3/2010
"Unlike traditional capacitive sensors, our patent-pending system can detect any object — not just a finger — and can determine how much pressure is being applied to every point on a sensor simultaneously. IFSR sensors are natively multitouch, use less power than capacitive sensors, and are much less expensive to produce, making them a highly disruptive technology with widespread market applications."
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Here is my Aug. 29 post:
Natural User Interface Surfaces: TouchCo - IFSR Technology company, founded by NYU Media Research Lab's Ken Perlin and Ilya Rosenburg
TOUCHCO GUI:
Touchco GUI example from Nick Bilton on Vimeo.
A Touch of Ingenuity: Inexpensive pressure-sensitive pad could make surfaces smarter
Kate Green, MIT Technology Review, Sept-Oct
Multitouch Screens Could Enliven New Devices
Nick Bilton, NYT, 12/20/09
TouchCo was an outgrowth of the UnMousePad research at NYU.
Photo from the UnMousePad website:
Photo from NYT:
Photo from NYT:
Photo from NYT:
Ken Perlin
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