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Lucid Touch

Lucid Touch
By Andy Smith

At Techfest 2008, Microsoft showed off a touch-screen technology for mobile devices which it developed with Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs. Lucid Touch solves some of the problems of small screen devices by allowing the user to hold it with two hands and use their fingers to navigate underneath a transparent screen. This allows for more precise pointing since your fingers won't cover what you are pointing to onscreen.

You can bring down a menu through this transparent screen. Click on any photo to enlarge.

Photos by Microsoft, text by Andy Smith.

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  • Most Recent of 26 Talkback(s)
RE: Lucid Touch (Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen)
This looks pretty cool to me. Not sure exactly what it can be used for yet. Sometimes there are really great concept items out there that never amount to anything because they aren't really useful, ... (Read the rest)
Posted by: mgrubb@... Posted on: 03/31/08 You are currently: Logged In | Log out
See-through ... wackoae   | 03/07/08
New Syndrome to be named: seannj427   | 03/10/08
Definitely not see-through. wgmorg   | 03/10/08
Strange that they use a Mac OS for the concept Roque Mocan   | 03/08/08
they could be proving Paul Fletcher   | 03/10/08
RE: Strange that they use a Mac OS for the concept orthocross   | 03/10/08
Amazing! Absolutely Incredible. Grayson Peddie   | 03/08/08
Not portable at all... Looks really awkward scoobyJ   | 03/10/08
It might hurt too! TtfnJohn   | 03/10/08
Awkward is right spyro17@...   | 03/12/08
RE: Lucid Touch (Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen) IMRAN@...   | 03/10/08
RE: Lucid Touch (Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen) Hugo Cesar Garcia Cardone   | 03/10/08
RE: Lucid Touch (Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen) winfried@...   | 03/10/08
RE: Lucid Touch (Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen) johninc   | 03/10/08
The photos look like treated by Photoshop fatality_instyle@...   | 03/10/08
fake photos AtlantaTerry   | 03/10/08
fakes... dunno crrg@...   | 03/10/08
Did you look at all the pictures? tikigawd   | 03/10/08
They're not fakes, they're REAL mockups. frotty   | 03/10/08
RE: Lucid Touch (Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen) erase@...   | 03/10/08
B/c the hardware is not tied to a specific OS tikigawd   | 03/10/08
RE: iPhone touchscreen kicks Lucid Touch ass grayson@...   | 03/10/08
... evilkillerwhale@...   | 03/11/08
I wonder tikigawd   | 03/12/08
Yet Again The Skeptics and Disapprovers Surface! Yowye   | 03/14/08
RE: Lucid Touch (Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen) mgrubb@...   | 03/31/08

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