New Kyocera touch screen “like pushing real buttons”
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At the Digital Contents Expo 2012 in Japan, Kyocera lifted the curtain off a display panel which can provide the “click” feeling of physically pushing a key and deliver a variety of other tactile sensations.
This technology takes traditional haptics to a whole new level and is nothing like the SurePress technology used by RIM for the BlackBerry Storm 2. By using piezoelectricity, the screens can vibrate back and forth with incredible speed thus mimicking the sensation of actually touching a button. Moreover, the feedback generated can also provide different sensations for different types of “buttons.” Depending on how it is programmed, the panel can reproduce a solid “click” or softer “gel” type feedback. Such differences in feedback would be possible by adjusting the frequency of the electrical current. Innovations like this would go a long way to help with typing accuracy.
According to a reporter from RocketNews24, this is the real deal, “The buttons on the touch screen actually feel like touching the real thing…” The applications for this kind of technology are easy to grasp, cars, medical devices, gaming consoles, tablets and of course, smartphones, all of which would be measurably easier to use in many ways with screens like this.
Kyocera is forecasting that these panels will be in over 2 billion devices by 2017.
sources: ITmedia (Japan) via RocketNews24
This technology takes traditional haptics to a whole new level and is nothing like the SurePress technology used by RIM for the BlackBerry Storm 2. By using piezoelectricity, the screens can vibrate back and forth with incredible speed thus mimicking the sensation of actually touching a button. Moreover, the feedback generated can also provide different sensations for different types of “buttons.” Depending on how it is programmed, the panel can reproduce a solid “click” or softer “gel” type feedback. Such differences in feedback would be possible by adjusting the frequency of the electrical current. Innovations like this would go a long way to help with typing accuracy.
According to a reporter from RocketNews24, this is the real deal, “The buttons on the touch screen actually feel like touching the real thing…” The applications for this kind of technology are easy to grasp, cars, medical devices, gaming consoles, tablets and of course, smartphones, all of which would be measurably easier to use in many ways with screens like this.
Kyocera is forecasting that these panels will be in over 2 billion devices by 2017.
sources: ITmedia (Japan) via RocketNews24
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9 Comments
1. Izzy_V posted on 08 Nov 2012, 02:20 1 0
I would love to have this on my next phone, whatever it may be. It's annoying when I type too fast and the auto-correction can't keep up or when it doesn't cover a certain word.
3. PhenomFaz posted on 08 Nov 2012, 02:34 2 0
its about time we had tactile screens on our devices
9. pikapowerize (banned) posted on 08 Nov 2012, 21:56 0 0
uuummmm,yes!! they power most of the photocopier her in my place... aside from canon! :)
7. JonBjSig posted on 08 Nov 2012, 11:43 0 0
Now, lets try and combine this with Senseg touch feedback!
8. downphoenix posted on 08 Nov 2012, 12:52 0 0
This is pretty cool.
Now if Kyocera could just FINALLY make a decent android device, it could be a great phone to have with this tech.
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