A Touch Screen With Morphing Buttons

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Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @11:42AM 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."

A Touch Screen With Morphing Buttons

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Interactive porn in... (Score:5, Funny)

by ActionJesus ( 803475 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @11:43AM (#27760001)

3..2..1..

Re:Interactive porn in... (Score:2, Funny)

by sadness203 ( 1539377 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @11:53AM (#27760139)

Morphing pornstar ?
Mmmh 'Key, click here, hold, [enlarging breast] ... Done.
Congratulation, you now have a virtual porn star with triple G
xxx-Box Achievement unlock : Isaac Newton's theory is now wrong.

Accessibility.... (Score:5, Funny)

by jdgeorge ( 18767 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @11:55AM (#27760167)

Of course. You can't just use a simple flat touchscreen in a vehicle dashboard. It would be impossible for a blind person to find the controls.

Re:Interactive porn in... (Score:5, Funny)

by Locke2005 ( 849178 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @11:59AM (#27760241)

Publishing the braille edition of Playboy suddenly makes a lot more sense!

Re:Accessibility.... (Score:5, Funny)

by busman ( 136696 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @12:01PM (#27760265)

Of course. You can't just use a simple flat touchscreen in a vehicle dashboard. It would be impossible for a blind person to find the controls.
and this is bad? I'm all for stopping blind people from controlling vehicles. See enough of them on the roads in Ireland already ;-)

Re:Interactive porn in... (Score:5, Funny)

by Reason58 ( 775044 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @12:08PM (#27760373)

They already have interactive porn. The problem is you constantly have to buy it dinner and feign interest while it talks about its day.

Re:Interactive porn in... (Score:5, Funny)

by clone53421 ( 1310749 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @12:10PM (#27760405) Journal

Unless you just buy it.

Re:Interactive porn in... (Score:5, Funny)

by Trikki Nikki! ( 1516301 ) * writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @12:11PM (#27760419)

They already have interactive porn. The problem is you constantly have to buy it dinner and feign interest while it talks about its day.
I know someone who's sleeping on the couch tonight!

Re:Accessibility.... (Score:5, Funny)

by camperdave ( 969942 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @12:12PM (#27760445) Journal

It would be impossible for a blind person to find the controls.

Trust me. If they can find the braille on the keyboards of drive through ATMs, they can find the braille on the control panel of a car.

Re:Interactive porn in... (Score:3, Funny)

by Evanisincontrol ( 830057 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @12:29PM (#27760675)

Is this some new feature?
<offtopic>Yes.</offtopic>

Re:Accessibility.... (Score:3, Funny)

by ColdWetDog ( 752185 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @12:31PM (#27760719) Homepage

Yes because at 100mph I want to be looking down at the dashboard to see where the volume up button is. Using a standard tactile dash I can feel it and I can feel if I've missed it. I don't have to take my eyes off the road.

Or you could just turn the fucking knob.... What is it with kids these days?

Grumble. Grump.

Re:Interactive porn in... (Score:5, Funny)

by Captain Splendid ( 673276 ) writes: <capsplendid@@@gmail...com> on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @12:45PM (#27760915) Homepage Journal

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Assuming he banged her every night during their 5 year relationship, it ends up costing him $26,849 per lay, not counting attorney's fees and court costs.

On the other hand, Elliot Spitzer's (Governor of New York) call girl Kristen charges $4,000 an hour. Crazy, right?

But...

Had Paul McCartney employed Kristen for 5 years, he would've paid $7.3 million for an hour of sex every night for 5 years (a savings of $41+million).

Value-added benefits are:
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no begging,
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no *****ing and complaining or "to do" lists.

Best of all, she leaves when you're done, and comes back the next day, ready for another round. All at 1/7th the cost, with no legal fees.

Is it just me, or is it better to rent?

Re:Slashdot logins are busted (Score:4, Funny)

by TinBromide ( 921574 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @12:48PM (#27760975)

No

Re:This fixes touchscreens (Score:3, Funny)

by Diamon ( 13013 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @12:50PM (#27760993)

Just hope your PIN doesn't have a zero in it.

Re:Slashdot logins are busted (Score:3, Funny)

by PotatoFarmer ( 1250696 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @12:50PM (#27761001)

Nope, came in under my regular account name. Unless, of course, this is the imposter posting again...

Re:Accessibility.... (Score:4, Funny)

by camperdave ( 969942 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @12:57PM (#27761083) Journal

Braille on drive-through ATMs is for blind passengers, not blind drivers.

Are you saying that a blind person can't use the ATM if they are a driver? Nonsense! How would the machine know if they are a driver or not?

Re:Accessibility.... (Score:3, Funny)

by vlm ( 69642 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @01:11PM (#27761295)

Braille on drive-through ATMs is for blind passengers, not blind drivers.
Are you saying that a blind person can't use the ATM if they are a driver? Nonsense! How would the machine know if they are a driver or not?
Want to really screw around with people, try driving thru an ATM backwards so the passenger can use the ATM. Some of the driveway clearances and curves can be challenging when done in reverse. Also as a bonus you get to stare at the driver behind you, which can vary from pleasant (if they're hot), to disturbing (if they continue to pick their nose anyway despite being face to face).

Re:This fixes touchscreens (Score:4, Funny)

by Jeremy Erwin ( 2054 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @02:08PM (#27762061) Journal

And with a bit of effort, one could even offset the screen and the buttons, so that the user is not intuitively aware of a connection between button A and function A.

Re:Slashdot logins are busted (Score:5, Funny)

by amentajo ( 1199437 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @02:26PM (#27762273)

Awesome. It showed my proper account name, PotatoFarmer, both times. I guess it's just a display error, then.

Re:This fixes touchscreens (Score:3, Funny)

by JCSoRocks ( 1142053 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @02:31PM (#27762327)

Then you can instruct the user to hit "Yes" or "No" but the only buttons are labeled "Enter" and "Cancel". So much fun!

Re:Interactive porn in... (Score:3, Funny)

by Tetsujin ( 103070 ) writes: on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @05:51PM (#27764935) Homepage Journal

No , you would either break your finger or the screen, and if you are a pervert - Accidentally a whole...
A whole what?

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