Hanvon Improves On The Touch Screen

It seems that Hanvon, a leading global eReader and touch technology manufacturer, today unveiled the Hanvon ERT Touch Technology, a revolutionary new method of enabling touch-based interfaces. Apparently their dual-touch ERT technology is not only flexible, but highly accurate as well and it costs less compared to other touch  screen technologies such as capacitive and resistive touch screens. In the press release they also stated some of Hanvon’s Dual-Touch ERT Technology’s key benefits compared to other alternatives:

• Dual-touch interface – Touch displays integrating the technology will work with both ERT styli as well as traditional touch interfaces.
• Increased precision – Using an ERT input pen, accuracy is as great as 0.1mm.
• Lower cost – Compared to capacitive touch, Hanvon’s technology is 30-50 percent less expensive;
• Easier manufacturing – Hanvon’s Dual-Touch ERT Technology works by adding an antenna network just above the sensor board. This can easily be added to any existing manufacturing process.

So considering it’s not only more precise and easily adaptable to existing devices and not to mention a cheaper process, does that mean we will start seeing some of this technology appear in smartphones some time in the future?