The Tactile Touchscreen - A Nokia Innovation
There was an interesting article over at the The Red Ferret Journal about Nokia perfecting the touchscreen to have ‘touch feedback’. This is a HUGE technological breakthrough that will change how we deal with our devices. Don’t be fooled with the imitations folks … this is for real! You just press a key on the screen, and you feel the click under your finger just like on a regular keyboard … very cool!! I’ll bet the folks at Apple went "grrr"……
Roope Takala, Senior Program Manager at Nokia’s research labs gave me a demo of the technology in Finland the other day on a hacked N770 Internet tablet.
“The basic technology is not that difficult,” he explained, “We inserted two small piezo sensor pads under the screen and engineered in a 0.1mm movement in the screen itself. What’s taken the time has been fine tuning the movement and response to mimic exactly the sensation of pressing a real key.”
Check out Red’s article here at the The Red Ferret Journal
Written by Jack Cook · Filed Under Nokia
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