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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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WOW, if not fake
its awesome...! Was searching for something like this but not this great...! (Read the rest)
Posted by: aravinthan Posted on: 05/27/08 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
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
WOW, if not fake  aravinthan | 05/27/08

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