Anyone who\u2019s struggled with fingers skating over today\u2019s touchscreens may be in for a relief – future generations of phones and tablets could offer real, transparent buttons that pop up out of the screen on demand. <\/p>\nAnyone who\u2019s struggled with fingers skating over today\u2019s touchscreens may be in for a relief – future generations of phones and tablets could offer real, transparent buttons that pop up out of the screen on demand. <\/p>\n
Californian start-up Tactus has developed a sheet of transparent buttons that rise up out of a touchscreen and disappear.<\/p>\n
The company claims that the sheet only takes up the same amount of room as the layer of transparent glass in current touchscreens.<\/p>\n
The technology could be used in tablets, phones and remote controls – and could even allow for touchscreens that can be played with the same precision that people use musical instruments. <\/p>\n
Tactus describes its technology as a \u2018world first\u2019 that aims to address the shortcomings of touchscreen control. <\/p>\n
\u2018What if buttons could morph out of the surface of your device?,\u2019 says the company.
\n\u2018Tactus provides a new dimension to touchscreens by enabling real, physical buttons that rise up from the surface on demand, and then recede back into the screen, leaving a perfectly flat, transparent surface when gone.\u2019<\/p>\n
Modern touchscreens are built of different ultra-thin layers of material – and Tactus claims that its Tactile Layer is as thin as the \u2018cover glass\u2019 currently used, and would require no change to the screens or sensors underneath. <\/p>\n
With the buttons enabled, users can push and type or rest their fingers as they would with any physical button or keyboard.<\/p>\n
When the buttons are disabled, they recede into the screen, becoming invisible and leaving a smooth, seamless flat touch-screen with maximum viewing area.<\/p>\n
Tactus claims that its technology is a natural \u2018step beyond\u2019 the current vibration-based feedback – known as \u2018haptics\u2019 – used in touchscreens. It also claims that it allows users to use touchscreens more precisely, knowing by touch where the buttons are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anyone who\u2019s struggled with fingers skating over today\u2019s touchscreens may be in for a relief – future generations of phones and tablets could offer real, transparent buttons that pop up out of the screen on demand. Californian start-up Tactus has developed a sheet of transparent buttons that rise up out of a touchscreen and disappear. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}