Touchscreen that touches you!

[source: indiatimes.com]

 

 

 

Have you ever imagine a touchscreen that touches you back? Senseg technology turns touch screens into Feel Screens. With Senseg touchscreens come alive with textures and edges that users can feel. Using Senseg technology, makers of tablet computers, smart phones, and any touch interface device can deliver revolutionary user experiences with high fidelity tactile sensations. The video below will explain in short this technology.

 

 



The main (if not the only one) advantage of physical keypad compared to touchscreen  is the tactile feel of the keypad. But with the advancement of touchscreen technology, now physical keypad is not relevant anymore, if you asked me.

If you are (still) the hardcore users and supporters of physical QWERTY keypad, I am sure when you watch this video, you will feel like an endangered species that don't belong.

We already experienced vibration haptics and similar solutions try to simulate a sensation of touch, but all are "feedback" technologies, vibrating only after touching the screen (even if they are touched in the wrong place or by mistake). In contrast, TACTUS technology creates real, physical buttons, where users can rest their fingers on the buttons, as on a mechanical keyboard, and input data by pressing down on the keys. Tactus is the only solution to both "orientation" and "confirmation" problems that are inherent in touch screens (www.tactustechnology.com).

That is how advance the technology is now. But why stop there? What are the common problem touchscreen device owners have throughout their usage? To me, the most common problem is the cracked screen due to fragility of the glass. Do we have the technology to strengthen the glass of the touchscreen so that it won't break?

Why bother? Just don't use glass. Simple solution, and the technology is already here.

In January 2013 Samsung officially launched their flexible OLED displays, calling them YOUM displays. YOUM panels are bendable and will be plastic based AMOLED. Flexible OLEDs are lightier and thinner compared to glass-based panels, and they should also be much more durable. In fact in they were said to be shatterproof!