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Originally Posted by fjtorres
They said so.
"Improved" means more of the same.
They *didn't* say "new touchscreen tech", now, did they?
Marketting-speak tells you a lot by what they don't say directly. 
If they were using something fancy, say infrared senors, they'd be bragging all over about the advanced Sony tech. Maybe give it a funky marketting name.
They're not.
Odds are its a thinner, better-bonded resistive layer.
Still an overlay, though, and its still going to diffract some.
Hopefully it won't be noticeable.
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PCworld says that indeed they use an infrared technology:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/20459...ml?tk=rel_news
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Instead, Sony uses an infrared optical technology touchscreen on each of its new models: The Reader Pocket Edition, Reader Touch Edition, and Reader Daily Edition. The touchscreen works by using infrared sensors to detect where your finger is on the screen; it compares that information against a matrix that identifies where your finger is and what action you are trying to accomplish, and then performs that action.
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And from Computerworld
http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...reen_e_readers :
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According to a company representative, the increased responsiveness is due to Sony's ability to remove a glass overlay that caused the screen to be duller and less sensitive than it now is; the current displays use infrared optical technology to locate where your finger is on the screen.
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