The Tactile Touchscreen – A Nokia Innovation

Posted by Jack Cook on Nov 07, 2007

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nokiats There was an interesting article over at the The Red Ferret Journal about Nokia perfecting the touchscreen to have ‘touch feedback’. This is a HUGE technological breakthrough that will change how we deal with our devices.  Don’t be fooled with the imitations folks … this is for real!  You just press a key on the screen, and you feel the click under your finger just like on a regular keyboard … very cool!!  I’ll bet the folks at Apple went "grrr"……

Roope Takala, Senior Program Manager at Nokia’s research labs gave me a demo of the technology in Finland the other day on a hacked N770 Internet tablet.

“The basic technology is not that difficult,” he explained, “We inserted two small piezo sensor pads under the screen and engineered in a 0.1mm movement in the screen itself. What’s taken the time has been fine tuning the movement and response to mimic exactly the sensation of pressing a real key.”

Check out Red’s article here at the The Red Ferret Journal

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