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 Disney Research's new capacitive touch technology can make everyday objects like a doorknob touch-sensitive.CREDIT: Disney ResearchView full size image |
Forget touch screens. Think touch everything. A technology developed at Disney Research will bring touch gestures to everyday objects, including plants and your body.
Called Touché, the technology requires you to connect only one wire to an object to make it touch-sensitive.
Capacitive touch sensing is used in most mobile devices today, like smartphones and tablets. It relies on interactions with your body's electrical properties, which is why you can't work your smartphone with regular gloves on. Traditional capacitive touch handles only two states: on (touching) or off.
Touché allows a wider variety of interaction than what is currently offered. The technology is able to detect five different states: no touch, one-finger touch, a pinch, circle and a grasp. When paired with software that knows what to do with these inputs, it allows people to more precisely control devices. For instance, the developer of the technology, Ivan Poupyrev, demonstrated a doorknob equipped with Touché that is able to register how someone is touching it.
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