Firms fuse high-tech sensors into concept phone Consumers could soon interact with mobile phones in more advanced ways than mere button presses or finger swipes, if the concept Fuse phone is anything to go by. Can't see the video? Download Flash Player from Adobe.com Fuse employs multiple interface technologies – including multi-touch capacitive sensing, haptic feedback …
One of the first apps will be a hug or hand-holding dating type one, you watch. Rule #1 for new technology is akin to rule 34; for any new technology, the first application will be porn - it happened with the printing press, the photograph, the internet...
And this technology seems similar to that in Apple's new mouse... Cupertino, start your lawyer's engines.
Surely they should look to turn console controllers into something like this so you can calibrate buttons to any part of the controller that is most comfortable for you rather than what the manufacturer decides is the best fit for most people.
Not sure how useful it would be to stroke the back of my phone rather than the front.
I saw a prototype universal remote at Sony Japan once which had a screen which somehow (through ultrasonic magic, apparently) made the on-screen buttons feel like you'd actually clicked them. Hard to describe - the buttons felt as if they "gave", even though there weren't any buttons. It was quite an astounding sensation.
Never seen it on sale anywhere. They should put this on the iPhone; it would be teh win - especially if you could feel for the buttons *before* you clicked on them.
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