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Apple’s all about touchscreen/multi-touch screens, and it looks like they want to redefine the touchscreen experience in the same way that the iPhone redefined the mobile phones user experience. The Cupertino-based company has filed with the USPTO for a patent application that would add pressure sensitivity to a touchscreen. Apple thinks that adding pressure-sensitivity to the touchscreen will add “a new element of control.”
A spring membrane could be embedded under the touchscreen layers to detect “force information [that] may be used as another input dimension for purposes of providing command and control signals to an associated electronic device.”
Whether or not the technology is compatible with Apple’s multi-touch-enabled iPhone is not yet clear. Here’s to hoping that the next-gen iPhone will rock a pressure-sensitive multi-touch display.
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
