This was covered a while ago, but for those who missed it here's just a little trivia.

The actual SCREEN is NOT touch sensitive. There are actually many infrared xmitters that pulse around the screen which are located behind the red plastic bezel. Opposite each of these transmitters is a receiver that senses when it is getting light and when it is not. When you place your finger( or any other fairly blunt object) in the path of the light the unit senses Both X & Y coordinates and tells the Navi which button your finger is over.

Anyway, I was bored and grabbed my sony camcorder w/night shot and took a peek at Navi with the nightshot on and off. I fugured the infrared would be constant beams of light going across the screen, but they actually seem to pulse rapidly. One thought that just came to mind was maybe it's the phasing of the camcorder making it flicker, kind of like what you see when you try to viedotape a computer monitor(crt)

Oh well, just something for you guys to chew on

Iggy

 

Could this explain the phenomenon of why the touch-screen isn't very responsive when in direct sunlight (like when the sunroof visor is open and the sun is beating down directly on the screen?

 

COuld be.....very interesting tho.

 

Ok, I took some shots now that it's dark.




And also recorded a 200k WMV:

Nav movie

Cheers,
The totally bored one who is waiting for wifey to break her water anytime and then rush off to the hospital

Iggy

ps- I told her not to even think about staining the leather :p

 

Don't stain the leather?!?! You like to live dangerously talking to a 9 month pregant woman!

 

She was looking over my shoulder as I was typing. Thank God she still has a sense of humor in between contractions.

 

hahah! just watch..he's gonna sleep on the couch tonight...

 

I may not be on the couch, but I will certainly keep "THE BOYS" well without reach when she is a pushin