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ARBOR Technology has lunched new portable medical tablet pc M1040 for Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) application. The M1040 features slim and easy-carry (1.3kg weight and 26mm thickness) as well as seamless panel design which makes it easy to be cleaned with medical solvent. Its 10.4??touch panel can support both resistive touch and electromagnetic digitizer. Users can also switch to single mode by click self-defined button.

Figure 1: M1040's user-defined button for touch type switch

Restive touch is the most popular touch technology in the market. Its application includes mobile phone, PDA, medical devices and so on. It can be operated by fingers and any round-pin objects. Not only easy to operate, the price of restive is also cost-effective than other touch types like capacitive and surface acoustic wave that makes it meet both consumer market and industrial market for particular applications.

On the other hand, electromagnetic digitizer touch identifies the location on the basis of vibration caused by electromagnetic wave, which enhances touch accuracy while provides better user experience with the electromagnetic pen. For example, doctors can use it when making comments on patients' electronic medical record (EMR). It is easy to write for doctors as well as to recognize handwriting for other clinicians. Consider healthcare personnel's different usages, the M1040 provides above two touch options in order to magnify the advantages of mobile health care and medical clinical assistant with other functions.

Figure 2: M1040's touch panel with the electromagnetic pen