Comments on: Toshiba M750 With Wacom Capacitive Multi-Touch Demoed On Video

By: Sumocat

Sumocat — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:29:02 +0000

Ugh. That’s not bad news; it’s abysmal. I like capacitive touch, but a desktop-style OS requires cursor control, and nothing beats an active digitizer for that. Furthermore, capacitive multi-touch is great if you’re sitting down or using a one-handed device, but you’re bound to trigger something unintentionally if you’re a moving around with a capacitive multi-touch tablet. Not good for mobility.

By: Shogmaster

Shogmaster — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:25:00 +0000

Oops, I meant EMR, not “EMG”.

By: Shogmaster

Shogmaster — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:24:20 +0000

Bad news guys. Despite the picture of the Device Manager, it did NOT have the active EMG digitizer in it. They DON’T have plans to include both, which I promptly freaked out over and drew surprised reaction from the poor Toshiba Engineer from the video (yes, the chap accidentally giving us the middle finger throughout the video).

Perhaps my reaction will change their minds, but so far, I’m not so sure about their plans with capacitive touch.

By: xmangerm

xmangerm — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:29:10 +0000

This tech looks to be very promising in the near future.

By: davidm

davidm — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:29:55 +0000

You mean to say companies will be providing “new” features as they become mainstream??!?!? Amazing!

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:56:41 +0000

Fred: Heh, sorry, I didn’t actually look that closely at the pictures.

Anyway, I’m happy about that, and will be looking forward to some more convertibles and slates using it. =)

By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:36:37 +0000

“Ben”:
If you look at the bottom photo showing a screencap of the M750Ã‚Â´s device manager it says that this is Wacom Penabled dual touch so this is clearly both a finger and pen based touch device :)

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:44:56 +0000

Do you have any word if wacom’s capacitive touch solution also provides stylus capabilities like their current digitizers? It would be wonderful to get both capacitive touch and pen input in 1 package.