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Giving Touch-Screen Buttons Depth and Height With Pneumatics

Posted by timothy on from the wait-for-pneumatic-spam dept.

blee37 writes "Researchers at Carnegie Mellon demonstrate 'popping out' touch screen buttons to become physical buttons using pneumatics. The idea is to combine the dynamic reconfigurability of touch screen buttons with the tactile feedback of real buttons. The technology could be applied where tactile feedback is currently lacking, such as in car navigation systems, ATMs, or cell phones."

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  1. SO COOL... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think I speak for everyone on this site when I say that this is REALLY COOL. I kind of want to go work on making a dynamic version right now. The technology shown here is cool but the concept of a dynamic surface that can re-shape is a great one and something that would should work on. Can you imagine how much better your phone/monitor/keypad would be if you could re-shape it as you needed?