News - Tactus touchscreen morphs into a 3 dimensional keyboard

[HEXUS]

Physical buttons can emerge, and then recede as if they were never there.

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[brasco]

Ludicrous video intro!! Love the tech though very impressive.

[Biscuit]

this most certainly is the future. Im still missing the qwerty keyboard from my chunky old HTC slide phones.

[Mblaster]

I can't see this taking off TBH, not in the current form, since it looks like the 'buttons' that pop out the screen have a preset location and can't be moved once it's left the factory.

Also, the benefit of traditional buttons is being able to slide your fingers over the buttons to feel the locations, then push down to press the button, but it looks like even though it is raised, it won't require a push to activate the button, just a touch. This would make the tactile feedback almost useless since you've already pressed the button before you get any feedback.

[aidanjt]

I can't see this taking off TBH, not in the current form, since it looks like the 'buttons' that pop out the screen have a preset location and can't be moved once it's left the factory.

Yeah, if the buttons are fixed then it's not going to be much use. But if they can extend the technology to raise any soft arbitrarily shaped and sized button then this could be huge.

[mtyson]

Yeah, if the buttons are fixed then it's not going to be much use. But if they can extend the technology to raise any soft arbitrarily shaped and sized button then this could be huge.

The CEO of Tactus said “It’s not just about creating QWERTY keyboards, it’s about creating a dynamic physical surface that can create different shapes and objects anywhere on your touchscreen.”

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

This technology does look interesting,but,technology alone does not drive a UI. We certainly do need more improvements in the actual UI design too IMHO.

[Biscuit]

you think?
i have been constantly impresed with WP, Android and to a lesser extent iOS for a while now. They really have that stuff down!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

you think?
i have been constantly impresed with WP, Android and to a lesser extent iOS for a while now. They really have that stuff down!

I mean for productivity based purposes and multi-tasking.

[Biscuit]

true, android is the closest by a long shot on that front, infact its the only one that even tries!

Its decent on ICS4 tablets but still has a way to go.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

true, android is the closest by a long shot on that front, infact its the only one that even tries!

Its decent on ICS4 tablets but still has a way to go.

WebOS is probably the best IMHO,but the lack of support means I now use ICS mostly on my TP.

[wtfitskeagan]

This looks amazing!!

[UnixNerd]

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On the other hand, if they were able to make the buttons braille character shaped all of a sudden touch phones and tablets become massively more useful to the partially sighted and blind user community

[voxstream]

How strange? A post to say how useful this tech would be for visually impaired people, but it seems not OK to post about neurologically impaired people.
My first post seems to have disappeared!