Gadget With a View


	Gadget With a View

Scattered_Fusion

6-11-2008 5:26 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/68b21b39-2b04-446e-a869-f1ccae2becf9/4B69EA2B-564F-47D1-A61D-91DF2F62688E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/goods/gadgets/2008/01/14/LucidTouch-Profile?TID=st092007ab" href="http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/goods/gadgets/2008/01/14/LucidTouch-Profile?TID=st092007ab" style="font-size: 11px;">www.portfolio.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/goods/gadgets/2008/01/14/LucidTouch-Profile?TID=st092007ab"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.portfolio.com/img/11DDB327-3CB4-4B66-A352-B0CC10FA967B" alt="LucidTouch phone" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/goods/gadgets/2008/01/14/LucidTouch-Profile?TID=st092007ab">
  Five years ago, Patrick Baudisch found that it was getting harder to dial the minuscule buttons on ever-smaller cell phones; he couldn't see what he was tapping on the keypad while he was holding the phone. What he really needed, he decided, was fingers he could see through. So Baudisch, a scientist at <A href="http://www.portfolio.com/resources/company-profiles/Microsoft-Corporation-1252" id="COMPANY_1252"><IMG class="popOverLink" src="http://www.portfolio.com/images/site/icn/icon-popNote.gif" />Microsoft</A> Research who was studying human-computer interaction, started working on something more practical: LucidTouch, a digital technology meant to give handheld devices the illusion of transparency. An unusual joint</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/goods/gadgets/2008/01/14/LucidTouch-Profile?TID=st092007ab"> venture formalized in 2006 between Microsoft and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, LucidTouch is designed to allow the use of all 10 fingers, unlike the BlackBerry or Treo. It has two touchscreens: one in front of the device, for thumbs, and the other in back, where the fingers (which appear onscreen as digital facsimiles) hold the device and type. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4B69EA2B-564F-47D1-A61D-91DF2F62688E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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