Touch screens

[Sean]

Did you look at http://www.elotouch.com/
They sell a bunch of solutions for commercial enterprises.

Touch screen (and LCDs) will seriously drop in the next year. IBM just
perfected its copper technology for LCD on top of a carbon plate. Which
is seriously a lot cheaper solution for the production of them. I believe
they are currently working on the manufacturing/large scale production
for them.

Depending on what you _want_ to do and your budget you might look at
getting a newton or pda and using that as a remote control to your
MP3 system. It wont give you as large of screen but most of them have IR
ports so it wouldnt have to be hardwired. You could hardwire the infrared
recepter into your dash, to your MP3 machine probably located in your
trunk. *shrugs*


On Tue, 8 May 2001, Edward Glowacki wrote:

> What I'm looking for:
> 8"-10" LCD touchscreen that can be hooked up to a PC (via monitor,
> serial port, whatever) to use as a display/input for a car MP3
> player.  Color 648x480 would be great, mono at some lower resolution
> would probably be acceptable.
>
> The closest thing I've found are the Sharp Mobilon Tripad PV-6000
> and the Vandem Clio C1000/1050.  Both of these are basically the
> same thing.  WinCE-based, 9.4" VGA touchscreen, PCMCIA slot, modem,
> keyboard.  Pretty neat little things, had a chance to play with
> one for a few minutes.  The only problem is of course that they
> are expensive, around $1000 (though I've been looking on Ebay,
> UBid, etc. for them, seem to be about $100-$200 on there when I
> look, not sure how much they actually sell for).  For $1000, I
> could also get a VGA touchscreen that interfaces via serial port,
> a "panel PC" with a built-in touchscreen, and numerous other possible
> solutions to my problem.
>
> My question is, with the massively falling prices of LCD's lately,
> including things like flat panel monitors and PDA's, why are there
> no small, low-end touchscreen LCD displays around?
>
> If you know something I don't, i.e. where to find something that
> will work, please let me know! =)
>
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