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A Touch Screen With Morphing Buttons

Posted by Soulskill on from the mighty-morphin-power-button dept.

Al writes "Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created a touch screen that can also produce physical buttons. Graduate student Chris Harrison and professor Scott Hudson use a projector and infrared sensor below the screen to illuminate it and make it touch-sensitive, and the physical buttons are created using air pumps below the surface. They say this type of screen could be particularly useful when a simple, flat touch-screen is too distracting, for example in a vehicle dashboard."

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  1. Re:Slashdot logins are busted by erroneus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wooo neat! Time for me to REALLY post some trolls!!!

    I am getting this too, by the way.

    Just to comment on the porn thing? Seriously, porn drives MANY innovations and refusal to accept the porn industry could result in the death failure of your technology as Sony and Betamax can attest.