Put Your Hands Together For Touchscreens

3M is now selling the industry’s first 19″ Multi-Touch Touchscreen Developer Kit, which is capable of fast and accurate tracking of up to ten fingers. Two or four finger touch capabilities and simple pinch-and-expand gestures are no longer the extent of sophisticated technology of touchscreen Muti-touch interactivity.

True multi-touch functionality holds immense appeal for all demographic groups and has been eagerly awaited by touchscreen software developers. For proactive OEM’s, its introduction means that they have the opportunity to get involved with a trend setting touchscreen technology that can make them leaders in there field.

Using the 3M touchscreen kit, software developers can benefit from the largest displays available and all the necessary tools to create previously unattainable levels of touchscreen interactivity in there next generation games and user applications.

The ability to support standard flick and scale gestures, as well accurately track ten individual fingers from single or multiple users offers huge potential to involve two hands or other users for a more

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