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A Sticky Touch Screen Lets You Feel the Buttons

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gross-gross-gross dept.

mikejuk sent one in that sends absolute shivers up my spine. "I have a problem with sticky touch screens — whenever I try to clean the jam off I activate and use a lot of apps I never intended to. However it looks as if sticky is the way of the future. A prototype screen has been shown that varies the friction as you move your finger across it. The result is that you can 'feel' the buttons and notches on scroll bars. It sure beats having to build real buttons..."

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  1. What am I missing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    whenever I try to clean the jam off I activate and use a lot of apps I never intended to.

    Turn it off and clean it? Or am I missing something.

  2. Am I the only one that misses buttons? by eepok · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, am I?

    Buttons provide tactile response about location and success of triggering a function. Both aspects are quite useful for things like accessibility, but I still prefer the knowledge of having hit a button on a cell phone keypad or qwerty over the use of a touchscreen where I have to constantly be looking at what I'm typing.