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Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen

By Andy Smith March 7, 2008, 2:48 AM PST

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Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen

Lucid Touch

Lucid Touch

By Andy Smith

At Techfest 2008, Microsoft showed off a touch-screen technology for mobile devices which it developed with Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs. Lucid Touch solves some of the problems of small screen devices by allowing the user to hold it with two hands and use their fingers to navigate underneath a transparent screen. This allows for more precise pointing since your fingers won’t cover what you are pointing to onscreen.

You can bring down a menu through this transparent screen. Click on any photo to enlarge.

Photos by Microsoft, text by Andy Smith.

Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen

This screen shows your hand in a somewhat distorted manner.

Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen

Lucid Touch technology allows you to make bold statements. More than one person can use the screen at a time. Each can be identified with their own color.

Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen

One user can operate the front while another operates the back.

Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen

Here, playing Warcraft 3, you have units at the touch of your fingers. Two gamers can play each other by simply placing the device between them, like chess.

Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen

One hand mapping

One hand mapping

For map navigation, users can use one hand gestures to scale or rotate the map.

Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen

Rotating the map

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