Displax Film Could Turn Nearly Any Surface into Touchscreen

It seems more and more apparent that our technology is heading towards a keyboard-less world. Displax, a company based in Portugal, has succeeded in using a projector and project any image on glass and make that surface a touchscreen. [Via Engadget]

Light Blue Optics already blew our minds up with its touchscreen-creating projector, but it looks like Displax will be the one to really turn the touchpanel into a modern day commodity. The Portugal-based company is trumpeting a new polymer film that can be stuck onto or just under glass, plastic or wood in order to transform a vanilla surface into one that responds to touch and airflow. Furthermore, the tech can be overlayed on curved panels, and it also plays nice with opaque and transparent surfaces. As the story goes, an array of nanowires embedded in the film recognizes your digits or pointed breath, and it then passes the information along to a microcontroller and software suite that transforms the inputs into reactions on your system. In its current form, the solution can detect up to 16 touch points on a 50-inch screen, and if all goes well, the first Displax-enabled wares will start shipping this July. Huzzah!

First Projector Cellphone is also an iPhone Clone

An iPhone clone made by a company named ChinaKing in…China is going to release the first projector in a cellphone with their new device. This is reported to be able to project a 30-inch, 640 x 480 pixel image for up to 2-hours at a time. Yes the run time is next to nothing, but it is revolutionary and a step forward in my opinion. Too bad it’s China. I like the fact that these images just show how much of a rip-off it is from the iPhone.