Capacitive touch sensors are entirely in the domain of DIY, requiring little more than a carefully-chosen conductive surface and a microcontroller. This led [John Phillips] to ask why not embed such ...

After the release of 3D Touch force-sensing input on iPhone 6s, Apple continues its push for the perfect input technology, most recently winning a patent that uses inline proximity sensors to detect ...

Eastman Kodak Co. and UniPixel Inc., which jointly are working on manufacture of a line of sensors for touch-screen electronics, have renamed the product. The sensors, previously called UniBoss, are ...

Research images of the OmniTouch system developed by Chris Harrison of Carnegie Mellon University and Hrvoje Benko and Andrew Wilson of Microsoft Research. Harrison/Benko/Wilson Researchers at ...

How can I examine the performance of a touch screen on a smartphone without using special equipment? By saying that,MotorolaMoto Labs, a research group of the company, draws a straight line on the ...

Ever wanted to build a touch table or other touch-input project, but got stuck figuring out the ‘touch’ part? [Jean Perardel] has your back with his multi-touch frame over on IO that makes any surface ...

There are all kinds of keyless door locks on the market these days, but this DIY version utilizes a touch-sensitive system powered by an arduino that offers a cheap, secure and discreet method of ...

Apple has filing for a patent that hints at future iPhones with Touch ID built into the screen itself. About the patent ...