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JOURNEY FROM GLASS SHEET TO TOUCH SENSOR

Various glass types are utilised to create optimal PCAP touchscreens for challenging environments. Standard soda-lime glass has a greenish hue due to iron content, while low iron glass minimises this tint for accurate colour display beneath the touchscreen. Zytronic cuts glass to any shape or size, up to 90+ inches diagonally, and can customise PCAP […]

How Does Projected Capacitive Touch Technology Work?

Touch technology has become commonplace in human to computer interaction and is, without a doubt, one of the most definitive technologies of the digital age. This is largely down to the outstanding performance of capacitive touchscreens. Demand for this technology continues to increase and as we’re all likely to use a projected capacitive touchscreen in […]

How to turn your Zytronic touch sensor into a touch screen monitor

Touch screen monitors are one of the best options for human machine interfaces (HMI), the user and complex equipment in medical, retail, and industrial work environments. But how do you create a touch screen monitor, using a Zytronic touch sensor? Here we will go through the steps needed to create a “Zytronic” touch screen monitor. […]

A Brief History of Touchscreen Technology

Through the mobile devices we use, touchscreens are literally putting the world at our fingertips morning, noon, and night. And it’s not just our personal devices that are all around us, touch screens are now prominent in busy high streets, airports, and industrial areas, but it wasn’t always so. Here we’re going to take a […]

Choosing The Right Touch Screen

Resistive, infra-red, surface acoustic wave, projected capacitive – with so many “flavours” of touchscreen, how do you know which is the best one for you? There are various factors to consider when looking for a new touch sensing technology. The type of application, the surrounding environment and the required performance of the system you are […]

Zytronic 2017 Review

It’s been another busy year at Zytronic, with exciting new product developments released and in the pipeline, further international expansion, interesting new case studies and recognition of our outstanding quality and environmental management systems. Increasing our global presence The year was off to a positive start, with a landmark global distribution agreement signed with Future […]

Advancing Customer Interaction With Object Recognition

In the past few years we’ve seen a growing trend in the touchscreen market for horizontal, or table applications. The increasing adoption of multi touch technology has led to many customers and consumers wanting a more collaborative multi user experience from their interactive hardware. This is seen significantly in the leisure and retail sectors; where […]

Touchscreens – It’s All About Control (ers)

To the end user, touch screen sensors are all about what they can see and touch: The design of the glass, the special features of the software and the ease of the user interface, however: the real “magic” component of touchscreen technology isn’t something most users are even aware of. It’s the controller While the […]

Good Vibrations: Tactile feedback and Touch Sensors

It’s predicted that by 2020 almost 2.9 billion people will own a smartphone (source statstica), and thanks to the worldwide adoption of smart devices, such as tablets, e-readers and smartphones; almost everyone is familiar with, and embraces touchscreen technology. In fact many people are so acquainted with smart devices they expect all touch sensors, regardless […]