“It doesn’t matter whether you give your iPhone a light tap or a hard press. Your phone responds the same, either way,” Timothy Stenovec reports for The Huffington Post. “But what if it didn’t?”
“Canopy, a Minneapolis-based startup, thinks touch screens limit how we interact with our smartphones,” Stenovec reports. “And this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show here, the company debuted the latest version of Sensus, an iPhone case that transforms the back and sides of your phone into large, pressure-sensitive touch pads.”
“This, Canopy says, has two advantages: It allows people to use their phones without touching the screen, increasing the viewable area (great for playing games). It also lets people use varying pressure to get different responses from apps and games,” Stenovec reports. “‘It’s a whole new dimension to applications that isn’t currently available on anything,’ Ian Spinelli, the marketing coordinator for Canopy, said in an interview. Spinelli demonstrated the pressure-sensitive features by using the back of his iPhone as a scale to weigh a bottle. He also took a selfie (of course!) by squeezing the sides of case.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
Apple had a patent granted a couple/few years ago where all surfaces of a device could be touch sensitive.
I think it dealt with the tech behind the concept.
It was pretty developed as I recall.
Think they have various ones in recent years or refining of the idea. Its got to be a good idea eventually as long as its implemented right.
This is kewl!
I should also point out Wacom having already addressed the pressure sensitive stylus for iOS devices.
http://www.wacom.com/en/us/creative/intuos-creative-stylus
And also, there’s the Jot Touch:
http://adonit.net/jot/touch/
And more recently, the highly kewl Pogo Connect:
http://www.tenonedesign.com/connect.php
Writing kewl makes yew sound like a fewl.
(My apologies Derek – I couldn’t resist – I really tried! I know I’m a real tewl for writing that and hope yew’ll forgive me!)
Haha! I haven’t heard that one. I keep waiting for the current youth culture to come up with a new obsessive superlative. Back in the early 1990s it was the mocking reformation of ‘cool’ in to ‘kewl’. I sometimes use it in my own mocking words ‘RadiKewl!’ and ‘NiffyKewl!’
No doubt the new superlative is out in the current culture and I have to catch up. In the meantime, I rotate between various retro superlatives for my own amusement.
One ancient superlative I shall NEVER use is ‘groovy’. I equate it with bell bottoms, plastic suits, vacuous hippies and general late 1960s cultural nausea, to which my generation responded with punk, new wave and grunge. 😉
I’m just relieved that I didn’t offend you. My impulse control sucks sometimes.
You’re the bomb!
YOUR impulse control sucks TOO? 😉
I love to see third-party innovation like this in the Apple Universe.