HP's TouchSmart tx2

The TouchSmart tx2 has a WXGA 12.1-inch, multi-touch glass display with capacitive touch featuring N-Trig’s DuoSense technology, and what that basically means is that you can use either your fingers or a pen. Make sure to check out the video demo below. It’s pretty darn impressive. You’ll see in the demo that the multi-touch functionality also extends beyond the HP MediaSmart 2.0 suite of applications to other apps such as Windows Explorer. The MediaSmart 2.0 software lets you watch movies, view photos, play music, watch TV on demand and listen to radio.




This video link demonstrates how the tx2 recognizes simultaneous input from more than one finger using “capacitive multi-touch technology,” which enables the use of gestures such as pinch, rotate, arc, flick, press and drag, and single and double tap. While those functions are brought by N-Trig, and as such are available on the more expensive Dell Latitude XT, HP have also added a few modifications of their own. A gesture-based app launcher is one particularly neat enhancement: after a double-tap on the display, the tx2 will recognize a letter traced out with your finger and load whatever software is linked.