In this edition, Guillaume Largillier – our company’s co-founder and chief strategy officer – describes some basic tests you can perform to evaluate a device’s multi-touch capabilities and characteristics.

Our ON THE HORIZON page will tell you what upcoming trade shows and conferences Stantum will be participating in, and you’ll learn through the GRAPEVINE how STMicroelectronics is using Stantum technology.  Our TAKE THE FLOOR page features a commentary by guest columnist Kenton Williston, editorial director at TechBites.com, on how “me too” touch screens just won’t cut it in today’s marketplace. 

In our IN THE NEWS section, we recap the major announcements Stantum made in 2009, including Sitronix chip announcement; patents granted by Europe and China; our new U.S. and Japanese offices; and our Slate PC demonstration platform being certified by Microsoft as Windows 7 compatible. 

Speaking of the Slate PC demonstration platform, we sent some advance prototype units to key media, and the devices were very well received.  For example, Paul Miller of Engadget said, “…this is basically the perfect touchscreen experience. Ten-finger multitouch, sensing and processing of multi-finger gestures, and simulated pressure sensitivity based on how much of a finger has been pressed down: all of these work brilliantly.”  Here’s a link to his complete review, which also includes a video.  And here’s a link to Dan Ackerman’s review in CNET. 

In addition, we demonstrated the device to the aforementioned Kenton Williston, who wrote this in TechBites.com: “Stantum’s tech has the potential to enable applications that are unimaginable today.”  Here’s his complete write-up.

And while we’re on the subject of media, Guillaume Largillier has a commentary in the current issue of ECN on designing multi-touch products that are more user-centric (scroll down to his article).

I hope you find these articles and the rest of Touch Point to be informative and valuable.