November/December 2007
A Better Touch Screen
In a Microsoft prototype, your fingers don't cover up what you're looking at.
By Kate Greene
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| Credit: Patrick Baudisch |
As touch screens shrink, one of the biggest problems users face is that their fingers cover up what they're trying to look at. An experimental setup from researchers at Microsoft and Mitsubishi lets people essentially touch their screens from the back. A semitransparent image of their fingers is superimposed on the front of the display.
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