The two-sided touch panel

LucidTouch Your fingers can't block the touchscreen if they touch the back of it. Steve Morgenstern

Touch-screen interfaces have an inherent problem—you can't see through your fingertips to see the spot you're trying to touch. After abandoning its controversial efforts to breed humans with transparent fingers, Microsoft came up with another novel solution, a system that lets you touch the back of a device and see an overlay of virtual fingertips on the front display.

Called LucidTouch, the demonstration model shown last week at TechFest (Microsoft's internal science fair) uses both a touch-sensitive rear panel to sense pressure and a webcam to accurately track the position of your fingers. Future versions will employ a single sensor panel for both functions.

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"After abandoning its controversial efforts to breed humans with transparent fingers..."

I can't recall any such experiments.

They were conducted right after the successful experiments to remove a sense of humor from milkweeds.

Anything but. Have you read the PPX forums?

Oh Nintendo might be very interested in this !!! some one mail them about this ^.-



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