Wednesday, November 21, 2012

News Card (Week 4)


Smartphones that can identify knuckle touch and fingernails

A modified smartphone, fitted with a small vibration sensor and running Harrison's Finger Sense software, listens for the acoustic and vibrational differences between the three different types of touch, the New Scientist reported.
A fingertip could select an object while a knuckle tap could work like the right-click on a computer mouse and open up a submenu, for example.
"A big problem with touchscreens right now is that they are very simplistic, relative to the capability of our hands. We could do so much more," Harrison said.

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