N-Trig pen tech whittled down to single DuoSense chips and sensors, shrinks scribblings to travel size

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As much as [N-Trig][3] is an old hand at supporting styluses, it's had to focus on tablets and other larger devices due to technology limits: the [HTC Flyer][4] is about as small as the company has gone to date. A new version of N-Trig's [DuoSense][5] chipset family could be the ticket to going to much smaller sizes. The new 4000 series condenses both pen input and multi-touch finger gestures into a combination of one chip and one sensor, letting any entrepreneurial device maker stuff the two control methods into a handheld device with as little as a 5-inch display. Naturally, the chip line scales all the way to 15.6-inch panels for creatives poking at the screens of laptops and larger [Ultrabooks][6]. We're told that both Android and Windows slates will get N-Trig's tinier touch tricks before the end of the year -- whether or not that includes phablets with the same girth as the [Galaxy Note][7] or [Optimus Vu][8], however, is left to our wild imaginings.

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