Other touch technologies are experiencing market growth, such as combination-type touch panels which offer both pen and finger touch.
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Exclusive to Targus, the Touch Pen's patented technology simulates the finger touch experience.
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The versatile tablet supports multiple input methods: multi-finger touch and an optional digitizer and pen, especially good for note taking, capturing signatures and completing forms.
This versatile tablet lets users work the way they want to with multi-finger touch support, pen input or the ability to connect to the optional ThinkPad Tablet 2 keyboard and dock for a PC-like computing experience.
Android was taking off in the wake of the Motorola Droid, and the software's support for both finger touch and multiple resolutions effectively opened the floodgates for companies wanting to one-up each other with bigger screens across more of their lineups.
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As OEMs also look to implement more flexible input options for consumers, the Synaptics ClearPad 3400 allows simultaneous pen and finger touch recognition, passive pen tracking with pinpoint accuracy, and linearity and jitter control that functions with any number of fingers and styluses as small as 2mm.
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The laptop's ten-finger intuitive touch capabilities and six second boot-up time maximize on-the-go productivity.
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Today at CES, Lenovo announced several new devices to its lineup of consumer and business Windows 8 touch-optimized devices, which all feature 10-finger multi-touch capability.
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The STYLISTIC Q702 features an 11.6-inch HD display with a precise active pen and 10-finger multi-touch user interface.
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Ten-finger multi-touch capabilities enhance the overall experience, allowing the user to interact directly with the screen, as well as the touchpad and keyboard.
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But, in comparison with the iPad, the Kindle Fire has a 33 percent smaller display, no cameras, no 3G wireless, less memory and only two-finger multi-touch (thus limiting its gaming capabilities).
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It's easy to navigate, shop and read with just the touch of a finger on the device's precise, ultra-responsive 6-inch infrared touch screen.
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Goren has identified five other situations in which people might prefer to use gestures instead of touch or finger-based commands.
They are smaller where there are fireplaces or built-ins, and they are far narrower in the center, where one can just about touch a finger on a stair banister and the other on the far wall.
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Mooly demos a game that lets him control a paper airplane with the touch of a finger.
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Pages "flip" with the click of a mouse or touch of a finger.
With one touch of a finger this new application backs up or restores data on the CX480 in seconds.
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Now you can tune the TV, start a movie and adjust your lights to set the mood, with the touch of your finger.
An easy-to-use, touch-sensitive, 3.0-inch high resolution LCD screen is powered by the touch of a finger to focus on subjects and activate the shutter.
It is also equipped with Easy-Slide image correction, an intuitive horizontal keystone adjustment slide control bar allowing users to place the projector off-center from the screen and easily center the image with the touch of a finger.
We got -- I was in there fooling around with those windows, where you press them and they dim on their own. (Laughter.) I kept on pressing the button, and -- dimmed and got light -- one touch with a finger.
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Signatures are drawn with a finger on the gadget's touch screen, and receipts are sent via e-mail.
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The 3.5-inch touch-screen display lets warfighters move information around, zoom in or out or place digital 'markers' on tactical maps with the touch of a gloved finger.
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So with Office 2013, you can access those ribbon buttons and menu options with your finger, as long as you have a touch-screen monitor.
As far as controls go, the entire unit is capacitive touch-enabled from the moment a finger swipe powers it on.
Where touch-based gaming suffers is your finger obstructing the view.
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Touch navigation: Users can simply move their finger around the screen and the voice synthesis will read the text located under their finger.
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The new Office is designed to work best on Windows 8 and is clearly designed for tablets, featuring responsiveness to Touch (including the ability to swipe your finger across the screen or pinch and zoom to read your documents and presentations), Inking, as well as new Windows 8 applications.
Next up, there's Quick Touch Panel, an algorithm that detects and analyzes finger gestures to make the panel more responsive.
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