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Demystifying Tech: Touchscreens

Demystifying Tech is a new weekly series in which TechnoBuffalo’s staff deciphers the cryptic technology terms that are thrown around everyday. By attaining a higher knowledge of the specifications backing the latest gadgets, one is able to make educated decisions and construct substantial opinions about controversial and complex topics. Today, we’ll be briefly visiting the...

Resistive vs. Capacitive Touchscreens

Travis Harvey 10 years ago

In the last couple years, many touchscreen devices have been produced on mobile devices. The growing popularity of these devices has sparked debate to crown the superior touchscreen technology. We’ll run down the two most popular touchscreen technologies: resistive and capacitive. Resistive touchscreens are usually developed with two layers of electrically conductive material that...