Not really, normal touch screen tablets have a capacitive touch
screen, which is why they usually only work with a special pen, and
you can rest your hand on them.

Cheers,
Federico

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:59 AM, ramsesoriginal
<ramsesoriginal@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ok, as most of you probably did by now, you heared about the Windows 7
> presentation. The most precise of you may have noticed: All of the
> multitouch is also aviable on normal touchscreens (in fact it was
> shown on a "normal" tablet notebook).
> Sooooooo...... what does this meen for us? simple: it's possible to
> mimc full multitouch with a normal touchscreen.
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:47 AM, "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)"
> <mail@3v1n0.net> wrote:
>> Joerg Reisenweber wrote:
>>>
>>> FR-TS is a resistive-4wire-type, which per se isn't capable of multitouch.
>>> I plan to investigate on some very hackerish tricks to get a little more of
>>> info out of this design, but for now: NO not possible.
>>> /jOERG
>>
>> I knew this, but it's neither possible to use the touchscreen particular
>> gestures like many Synaptics touchpads: I mean tapping,
>> double/triple-fingers tapping, two finger scrolling (mine, that is 5 years
>> old does it!)...
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