Mini USB Touch Screen

[braincell]

You can get a mini touch screen which connects via USB for less than $200. I wonder if this would be a good music controller.

http://www.slashgear.com/nanovision-mim ... w-2123771/

[Zer]

I hate touchscreens. Never had seen an accurate one controlling the exact data. Esp. when it comes to the Lemur or the ticket automatic system of the Deutsche Bahn. Have a look at a 6 month old iphone and judge yourself.

[kensuguro]

touch screens are good for making quick selections from things that are spatially spread apart. Especially if the buttons or whatever it is you're touching changes in functionality. Great for stuff like multifunction buttons.

what always bugged me was the fact that you hand covers up the screen while you interacted with it.. so for some situations, it makes sense to have the display and the interaction surface separate. But again, in some cases a touch screen is a more efficient solution. Accuracy is still an issue though, if you're not using a stylus or something with a small tip. Wacoms pens are accurate, a finger isn't.

[Neutron]

using that and usine would be cool but you can buy a 15" LCD touch screen (ELO) on ebay for less than that
i got one for $120 1280x1024 standard ELO USB touch screen. and it connect to a video card so no wasting you USB badwidth on video.

if it was multitouch now that would be something

[kensuguro]

one of these little things.. it's touch screen.

http://www.avadirect.com/product_detail ... PRID=11964

and usine sounds like a pretty good live rig, just to play back vsti and stuff. Although touchscreen still has trouble being dead accurate.. esp with a tiny screen like this, you're bound to step on unnecessary buttons. still, shows promise.

[braincell]

I like that the speed of touch can have an effect like momentum. There is no reason why this could not be programed into knobs though. I wonder why nobody has done that. Like pushing something on ice. If you turn the knob fast, it keeps going for a while then slows to a stop but if you turn it slowly, it doesn't do that so much.

[kensuguro]

Well, for me, coming from designing gui for games and such, ANYTHING that involves learning will throw people off... or, at least it gives them a learning curve, and most people tend to avoid that. Thinking is the holy grail of man kind.. people aren't willing to use it sparingly, lol.. Thinking seems to be seen as a liability in most business contexts.

Specialized interfaces are fine for a specialized market I guess.