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Microsoft: Touchscreens Old and Busted; Force Sensitivity Is New Hotness

Craving a bit deeper, more meaningful interaction action with your touchscreen gadget, like maybe stretching or squeezing it? Microsoft thought so. Researchers have come up with a prototype of their force-sensing tech that'll let you apply different kinds of force to a device, like twisting or bending, to do stuff like flip through document pages or swing through applications. More »

9:30 PM on Sat Apr 19 2008
By matt buchanan
14,026 views, 73 comments

Latest by Mokers: Reading the article, the researchers make it pretty clear that this would be another feature that would augment multi-touch and tilt. We shouldn't say this tech is not useful, but it's not going to go anywhere unless it proves better more »

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Apple Applies For Another Force Sensitive Touchscreen Patent

With this patent and the one filed last week, Apple's got more force sensitivity than Luke and Darth combined. The latest one, titled "Force and Location Sensitive Display," detects both where your finger is and how hard you're pressing down on a display. Skipping over the technical details of how this is done, the end result is that you've got a possible touchscreen portable device that can tell you that you're pushing down on it too hard. When you combine these two patents together, you get the indication that Apple's definitely working on either advancing the touchscreen in iPhones or a touchscreen tablet/laptop. [Apple Insider]

2:45 PM on Thu Oct 11 2007
By Jason Chen
1,288 views, 7 comments

Latest by Ungenious: iPhone 2.0 ... Regardless, the clear problem with using a touch-screen keyboard, is that in normal usage, you lay your fingers on the keys then push down when you want to type. The iPhone & touch keyboards suck to use because you more »