MANHASSET, NY — Fueled by a growing demand by smartphone vendors, the race for more robust and accurate touch screen technologies — with lower power and faster response time — is ratcheting up.

Microchip Technology Inc. added the MTCH6303 to its Human Interface Solutions portfolio. The MTCH6303 is an innovative, turnkey projected-capacitive touch controller for touch pads and screens. Touch ...

Apple’s next-generation iPhone could utilize a touchscreen display from Hitachi Displays that will work with gloves and other insulators, meaning non-conductive surfaces, in addition to fingertips.

Good news, cold-climate dwellers: There is a new company entering the glove-friendly capacitive touchscreen arena. SMK, maker of telecom and electronic components has recently announced a new 6.5-inch ...

Ocular Display Systems, based in Dallas, announced two advances in the past week. The first was its development of "projected capacitive" touchscreens for device sizes larger than the smartphone ...

Hitachi Displays Ltd has developed a new kind of touchscreen, a capacitive model that can handle input from non-conductive sources. Most of the Android smartphones being sold now use capacitive ...

One of the most important parts of any netbook (or any computer for that matter), is the display. But there hasn’t been much progress in netbook display technology over the last 12 months or so.

I posted about AGloves a week or so ago. Although I don’t think they are actually for me, AGloves actually do work quite well with capacitive touch screens. I got sent a pair for review and so last ...

At Nintendo's Switch press conference today, the company revealed that its upcoming gaming console will have -- wait for it -- a capacitive touch screen. This is a pretty big move for Nintendo, which ...