KFAR SABA, Israel -- (BUSINESS WIRE) --

N-trig, provider of DuoSense^® – the first integrated active pen and multi-touch technology, today announced that its pen and touch controller powers Sony’s VAIO^® Duo 13 Ultrabook. DuoSense offers an active pen to improve the user experience and enhance productivity. N-trig’s DuoSensePen™ provides VAIO^® Duo 13 users with the write experience™, including high accuracy, advanced palm rejection and hover capability for ease of control and navigation. Two different pen tips are included, providing different friction levels on the glass surface to closely pursue the desired pen-on-paper user experience. With these features, DuoSensePen serves as a natural method of enhancing the man-machine interface.

“Working closely with Sony helps us maximize our pen and touch controllers’ performance. Based upon our improved fourth generation DuoSense technology Sony’s new Ultrabook offers a differentiated and superior pen solution,” said Amichai Ben-David, CEO of N-trig. “The active pen is going to be an essential part of all future smartphones, tablets and Ultrabooks, and we are committed to continually improve our pen and touch solutions to power these forthcoming mobile devices.”

Key features of N-trig’s DuoSense technology include:

• A single sensor for both pen and touch, allowing for thinner and lighter Ultrabook devices
• Accurate and precise active pen with advanced palm rejection, pursuing a pen-on-paper user experience
• Hover and pressure sensitivity, providing a more natural user experience while improving productivity and creativity

About N-trig

Leveraging its unique DuoSense® technology, N-trig provides high performance pen and touchscreen single-chip controllers and a variety of active pen types for smartphone, tablet and Ultrabook™ devices. By enabling OEMs to use a single sensor for both pen and touch, the company’s technology facilitates slim and cost-effective designs. With advanced palm rejection and pressure sensitivity providing a natural feel, the N-trig active pen dramatically improves the creativity and productivity of touch-enabled systems, allowing an intuitive Hands-on computing® experience. Founded in 1999, N-trig is headquartered in Israel, maintains sales and customer support offices in North America, Japan, Taiwan, and China, and works closely with tier-1 mobile device makers and partners. For more information, please visit: http://www.n-trig.com

N-trig, DuoSense and Hands-on computing are trademarks of N-trig; Ultrabook is a trademark of Intel Corporation

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