Touchscreen maker FlatFrog nabs $25M from Intel Capital

18 Jun

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The touchscreen market's a hot one, and for Swedish touchscreen maker FlatFrog, it's about to get hotter. Intel's investment organization Intel Capital is investing $25 million in FlatFrog and its operations.

FlatFrog's patented touchscreen technology is built on planar scatter detection (PSD), which uses light to register inputs rather than the capacitive input-based technology behind most current touchscreens. This allows PSD displays to register more than 20 simultaneous inputs, not just from fingers but from gloved hands and pencils as well.

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