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A new smartphone case could soon enable folks with visual impairments, tremors and spasms to use touch screens independently. Developed at the University of Michigan, BrushLens could help users perceive, locate and tap buttons and keys on the touch screen menus now ubiquitous in restaurant kiosks,
Here's an interesting one, highlighted by Phys.org - it's using an (Android) smartphone to drive a separate display, powered by harvesting energy from the
A sensing system called SAWSense takes advantage of acoustic waves traveling along the surface of an object to enable touch inputs to devices almost everywhere. Here, a table is used to power a laptop's trackpad. Image credit: Interactive Sensing and Computing Lab, University of Michigan Study:
A new system "will enable you to treat, for example, the whole surface of your body like an interactive surface," says Yasha Iravantchi.
A newly developed method for recording and examining surface-acoustic waves could allow almost any object to serve as a touch input device and further power privacy-sensitive sensing systems.