In his installation, users create their own "soundscapes" by moving plastic plaques over a motion-sensitive tablet.
The primary outcome was the number of upper limb freezing episodes during five trials of the funnel task on a touch-sensitive tablet.
Shaw Wu at American Technology Research thinks Apple could be working on a touch-sensitive tablet that riffs off the iPod Touch's touch-sensitive interface, arguing there is a a "50% chance" it will be introduced Monday.
But in 2010, Samsung-backed researchers at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea showed it was possible to create roll of metres of the material, and demonstrated it on touch-sensitive tablet screens.
The Wacom Cintiq 13HD is the most portable of the line, which features displays built-in to a highly accurate pressure-sensitive tablet, and I've been using one to doodle, edit photos and paint digitally for the past few weeks.
A processor and memory that could replace a PC? Jacobson thinks that this technology is about one or two years away, and warns that increased manufacturing costs would result in a price that is too high for cost-sensitive tablet buyers.
Pressure-sensitive tablets are nothing new but how about a tablet that can sense 2048 levels of pressure?
ViewSonic plans to sell small, easy-to-use consoles that can fit in the corner of a kitchen, and touch-sensitive tablets that can be left by a bedside or on a coffee table.
I found the pressure sensitive Wacom tablet to be something that works really well for me.
"A lot of my characters are poorly drawn but well dressed-up," he quips.He confesses to being unable to force himself to use a pressure-sensitive drawing tablet for more than a few minutes.
A lot of creative pros have been lusting after devices like these since Wacom introduced its pressure-sensitive display/drawing tablet combos, and while the appetite has been whetted by devices like the iPad, and the Galaxy Note line of tablets (which Wacom supplies the tech for), there's been no substitute for a homegrown Wacom solution.
