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NYU Researchers Create Cheap, Flexible Pressure-Based Interface
Al writes "A super-cheap, thin and flexible touch interface developed by researchers at New York University and could be used to add touch sensing to all sorts of gadgets and devices. It measures a change in electrical resistance when a person or object applies different pressure. The "Inexpensive Multi-Touch Pressure Acquisition Devices (IMPAD)" consists of two sheets of plastic containing parallel lines of electrodes. The sheets are arranged so that the electrodes cross, creating a grid and each intersection acts as a pressure sensor. The sheets are also covered with a layer of force-sensitive resistor (FSR) ink, a type of ink that has microscopic bumps on its surface. So, when something coated in the ink is pressed, the bumps move together and touch, conducting electricity."
...and it's inexpensive... ...because they put the word "inexpensive" in the product name...
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Exactly. Think about clothing...
"Hey baby, check out my new touch-sensitive digital pants. Let me see if you're wearing one of those touch-sensitive shirts..." (SLAP!) "OK, I guess it's VERY touch sensitive..."
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I heard it alssso makes the wearer invisssible.
You know, because it's preciousss.
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"Work faster! FASTER! The deadline's in THREE HOURS!" *whip crack*
This technology will be a huge leap forward for butt-print analysis.
Did you get that thing I set ya?
No, that was intentional. Only having 2 "S" could invoke Godwin's law.