Touchscreen technology has become a fundamental interface in modern electronics, spanning smartphones, automotive displays, industrial panels, and consumer devices. Innovations in capacitive sensing, haptic feedback, and ruggedized designs are expanding touchscreen applications into challenging environments. Manufacturers are optimizing transparency, response time, and multi-touch accuracy through advanced materials and integration techniques. Touchscreen controllers and ICs are evolving to support flexible and foldable displays. Electronics Weekly provides the latest touchscreen news, including component innovations, market growth, and design strategies. Stay up to date on how touch interfaces are redefining user experience and product design across global electronics and embedded technology markets.
The Nebula AI series of touchscreen displays by Glory Star is now available from Crystal Display Systesm (CDS). Three sizes are offered – 10.1, 15.6 and 21.5-inch. They are powered by quad-core Cortex-A72/Cortex-A53 CPUs for multi-tasking and inference applications and have an integrated 6TOPS neural processing unit (NPU) for AI operations such as facial recognition, object tracking, text-to-speech and posture ...
Inelco Hunter is stocking a touch screen 4.3-inch IPS display which, as well as suiting new industrial designs, is a drop-in alternative to recently discontinued Innolux models, it said. Made by Powertip in Taiwan, JXT480272T016-ZBB03 has a resolution of 480(RGB) x 272 pixels and a backlight for viewing at up to 450cd/m2. The touch screen is resistive, and the image ...
Inelco Hunter is stocking a 5inch screen with glove-touch electronics and a 3mm toughened front glass. “The touch display is particularly suitable to outdoor environments where a bright, rugged screen is required, or where the user will be wearing gloves, such as hospital and factory settings,” according to Inelco. Potential uses are not limited to industry, environment, energy, electric vehicles, ...
Alps Alpine has launched a touchless capacitive overlay to add proximity control to 15.6inch displays. Detection range is 50 – 80mm for hand or finger proximity, 30 – 50mm to select an action and 0-30mm to activate an action. “Capacitive touch panels offer intuitive input and control. The flipside is that normal capacitive touch panel input is obstructed by wet ...
Using Arduino’s recently introduced Giga R1 WiFi CPU board and need a human interface? The Giga Display Shield (plug-in board) might fit the bill. It adds a 3.97inch 480 x 800 RGB touchscreen, digital microphone (MP34DT06JTR by ST), six-axis IMU (Bosch BMI270 inertial measurement unit), an RGB LED and a camera connector. Touch on the display is five-point + gesture, ...
For industrial use, Inelco Hunter has announced a metal case for its Raspberry Pi and 10.1inch touchscreen kit. Made from a mixture of steel and aluminium, it is powder coated in one of three standard colours: black, grey or white. Other RAL colours are possible subject to a minimum order. Outside dimensions are ~260 x 178 x 42mm, with the ...
Fabless touch controller IC company TouchNetix has raised around $12m (actually 120MNOK). Investing companies included: Alliance Venture, Bergan, Calypso Invest, Djerv Holding, Fyrva, Investinor, Investitude, LER Invest, Motor-Trade Eiendom & Finans, R Munkhaugen, Reitan Kapital and Wiski Capital. The financial advisor was Sparebank 1 Markets. “We are delighted to be supported by such a strong base of investors, and that ...
Advantech has announce ARM-based touch screen panel PCs aimed at machine automation. Available with 7, 10.1 or 15.6inch screen sizes, TPC-100W panel PCs have a quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 that supports Linux Yocto and Android operating systems – details below. The screens have capacitive touch and resolution to suit their size: WSVGA, WXGA or ‘full HD’ respectively. Processing comes from an ...
AMT’s Polym Touch is a polymer composite material placed over the top of a projected capacitive (p-cap) touchscreen to protect the substrate against impact. It is available through Review Display Systems (RDS). Thick glass cover lenses are specified in applications where health and safety regulations require the food industry as well as public information terminals and kiosks which can be ...
Microchip has introduced a touch controller family for ‘knob-on-display’ (KoD) human-machine interfaces. These interfaces add a physical ‘clicky’ knob to the front of a display without traditional rotary encoder electronics. Instead, a passive rotatable clicky knob is simply stuck to the front of the display glass (diagram right) and one or more electrodes underneath interact with the display’s existing capacitive ...
