Stantum's mind-blowing multitouch interface on video!

by Paul Miller posted Feb 19th 2009 at 10:32AM

We just got a look at some amazing touchscreen interaction, running on a humble resistive touchscreen with some OMAP hardware backing it up. Stantum's technology is a software-based refinement to resistive touchscreens that allows for accuracy beyond the pixel density of the display, a complete lack of touchscreen "jitters" and some fairly incredible input methods. Termed "TouchPark," the multitouch framework provides gesture recognition, cursor management and physics processing for phone builders to stick on top of the phone OS (Symbian, Windows Mobile and Android are currently supported), and works with hardware such as Texas Instruments Zoom, Freescale i.MX and ST Nomadic. The PMatrix multitouch firmware allows for unlimited inputs, detection of any contacting object (a finger, a stylus or even a paintbrush) and pressure sensitivity. We played with the demo unit for a bit and were frankly blown away, it's far and away the best touch experience we've ever seen or felt, and the multitouch functionality is just gravy on top. Stantum is targeting resistive touchscreens because they're still considerably cheaper to build than capacitive ones, and from our perspective there seems to be zero tradeoff -- for sensitivity and accuracy this destroys everything else we've seen on the market, capacitive or not. Sadly, there's no word on when this will make it into real, shipping handsets, but we'll certainly be tracking its progress obsessively. Video is after the break.

Gallery: Stantum's mind-blowing multitouch interface on video!

Filed under: Software

Tags: features, hands-on, multi-touch, multitouch, mwc, mwc09, pmatrix, resistive, resistive touchscreen, ResistiveTouchscreen, stantum, touchpark

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Dayne @ Feb 19th 2009 11:01AM

Wow.

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CParticle @ Feb 19th 2009 3:55PM

Man that is awesome. I think the accuracy is what stuns me the most.

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Bill Grove @ Feb 19th 2009 11:45AM

Wow indeed. All of the sudden Apple multitouch patent seems like a joke. Let's go back to resistive touchscreens! Please, oh PLEASE someone other than Apple implement this quickly. I LOVE my iPhone, but I REALLY hate Apple. So let's see HTC or one of the other big guys put this in!

Bill

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SimbaDogg @ Feb 19th 2009 10:31PM

haha, thats probably the sweetest comment i've seen in a while, i love my iphone but i hate apple. haha

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Steve.G @ Feb 19th 2009 11:45AM

I'm impressed

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Scott @ Feb 19th 2009 8:59PM

Amazing.....like a look in to the future....which I guess it is.....it will probably be multiple years before
we see this show up in a handset.......Apple is probably buying this company as we speak lol...if not they should be

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yaniv.chokron @ Feb 19th 2009 12:32PM

Oh momma Im in fear for my wallet from the long arm of the touch!
That was..... AMAZING! The possibilites are incredible.
Why do they tease us so?

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KilgoreTrout @ Feb 19th 2009 12:52PM

Give me that HTC (or Samsung or LG or whomever) and I'll give you my euros (some of them , at least)

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Will @ Feb 19th 2009 1:03PM

that was amazing, i hope samsung or htc jump on this.

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Llama @ Feb 19th 2009 5:15PM

The most interesting thing is that its running software, not hardware. And its this smooth on an OMAP? Sure, its a new processor, but its still a cell-phone one. This would be excellent for tablet pc's too, since the touchscreen would be cheap, but it will be as good as a capacitive one. (Actually better, if we can take their word for it)

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