controller - Capacitive Touchscreen for DIY usage?

Anyone know of a good source for capacitive touchscreens in low quantity at a reasonable price? Just something to play around with in projects, I'm interested in either small (eg for portable applications, 3-5") or large (eg for kiosk or standalone applications, 10-20"). I know I can get a resistive touchscreen for pennies these days, but I want a capacitive one (for various reasons).

EDIT: The reasons I'm interested in are basically just the main reasons people use capacitive screens in general. Things like more durable (a solid piece of glass instead of a flexible piece of plastic), Multitouch capable, etc.

Answer

I've also found that capacitive screens are hard to come by if you're not an OEM. This 2009 article states "With prices of projective capacitive touch panels at about $2.50-3.00 per inch, the average cost for a touch panel module will be about $30 for a mainstream-size netbook". That, of course, is the price for Asus to buy 100,000 of them, not for you and me to tinker.

Fortunately, there are a lot of OEMs who produce products with capacitive screens, and there is a significant market for replacement screens. I'd recommend that you find a screen (Both LCD and touch panel) which meets your needs on an existing product (whether it's a touchscreen PC, netbook, or PDA) and then try to find a replacement screen for it. While you're looking, take a look at this comparison of the Nexus One, Droid Eris, Motorola Droid, and iPhone touchscreens, to help you decide what to get. Also look for hardware hacking forums for more help, as the datasheets will be hard to come by.

For an example screen, Sparkfun sells the replacement iPhone touchscreen and display for $140 - Not bad for the display, but a lot if you just want the sensor. Directfix (and many others) sell just the digitizer for about $30, some sell the digitizer, glass, and home button for about $50 - you'll have to look around. (Look here - iPAD touchscreen! So long, joystick buttons; hello, 10" glass touchscreen.)

Calamari over at Sparkfun said (Concerning the iPhone replacement touchscreen):

As you can see in the photos, there are two B2B connectors. On one is for the video. It has a 1v8 SPI bus to configure the controller and a MPL interface for the pixels. You can drive the latter with a LM2506 and that's fairly straightforward to implement although the part is a leadless LLP in its largest incarnation. That interface gives you 18bit color.

The second B2B connector is to the touch screen controller. Also 1v8 SPI. During initialization, the touchscreen and host exchange packets of about 80K bytes which tends to rule out using a smaller microcontroller.

During a touch, the touchscreen will generate an interrupt every 16ms.The host reads 8 bytes which include the length of the payload packet. The payload is 55 bytes for one finger, 83 for two, etc, and has a simple checksum. On the iPhone, the host runs it at a bit clock of 12 Mhz, but I imagine slower would be fine.

As others have said, capacitive touchscreens, while nice, are much harder to work with than resistive ones. Budget some space on your micro (ARM9 or better, probably - Can you handle 1024x768 data at 100Hz?) and PCB accordingly; don't expect to build an iPhone with your Arduino.