I got to spend a couple hours today at work playing with a Kindle Fire (we have a few new books coming out in Kindle version, and we have to make sure they look right on all the possible platforms, after all. Truly my life is a vale of tears.) and I found out something kind of interesting.
Whatever version of the screen capacitive sensing technology the Kindle Fire uses to register touches, it's very sensitive. And by very sensitive, I've discovered that I can get it to register without actually touching the screen. You have to get very close-- possibly under a millimeter-- but it will pick up on the presence of your finger and act like you've touched it.
On the one hand, this is occasionally annoying, if I have my finger poised to tap but haven't quite committed yet, and it jumps the gun. On the other, it means that if I can keep my finger steady enough, I can hover over the edge of the screen and actually achieve a sort of fast-forward scroll that's faster than repeated tapping. Which is kind of cool, really.
I may have an old grounding strap I can send you.
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