Giving Touch-Screen Buttons Depth and Height With Pneumatics 146
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."
Re-post? (Score:1, Informative)
I could swear I read about this on /. several months ago... at the very least, this story is OLD. Looks like some blogger just rehashed it from back in April (link is not /., obviously).
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/carnegie-mellon-morphs-pop-up-buttons-onto-multi-touch-display
Electroactive polymers? (Score:3, Informative)
I thought people were already trying to do this sort of thing using electroactive polymers [wikipedia.org]. Certainly there seems to be a couple [freepatentsonline.com] patents [patentstorm.us] on the idea [faqs.org], not to mention someone who thinks the technology could be used to make braille-capable touchscreens [popsci.com].
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Immersion Corporation (Score:2, Informative)
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Re:Visual feedback (Score:4, Informative)
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Fans generally move.