Thanks to Amazon’s acquisition of multi-touch display manufacturer Touchco, a color touchscreen Kindle may be coming sooner than later. The company’s touchscreen technology “is designed to be cheap�under $10 a square foot – using a resistive display tech called interpolating force-sensitive resistance.”
What makes it more special is that unlike most resistive touchscreens, it’s pressure sensitive, and can detect an infinite number of simultaneous touches.
[via Gizmodo]