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Originally Posted by Anarel
...and I know no one has ever said this before, but I hate fingerprints on the screen!
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No, people say that all the time. It isn't an issue for me, though, because
I never use the pad of my finger. I touch the screen with the tip of my fingernail. Your nails too short? Curl your finger slightly inwards and touch with the edge of the face of your fingernail. I understand that less responsive technologies like are used on the iPad and smartphones actually require you to use the pad of your finger (either because of poor sensitivity or a need for electrical conduction) but that isn't an issue with the technology used on the new Sonys, Nooks, and Kobos. For those, you can use anything reasonably small that interrupts the path of the IR beams. Finger pad. Finger nail. Stylus. Swizzle stick.
Trained flea. You don't even have to actually touch the screen-- the sensors are millimeters above the surface. I expect in the future more and more products to use the same (or a copycat) IR technology used in the Sony, Nook, and Kobo and dumping the inferior techs that they use now.