10-15 years from commercial introduction in some form (not portables).
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Researchers Develop New Tactile Technology That Could Enable a Pop-Up Keyboard on a Flat Smartphone Display
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Oh yeah… That pitch man in that video… What was his name? He was THE kickstarter/new tech pitch man for a few years there. If you had a new device, he was the guy. What happened to him?
On topic: interesting tech. Maybe it’s thickness will see camera bump go bye bye. 😂
If Apple adopts this, and that’s a big if, it’ll be 7-10 years after Samsung has had it on their phones.
In the meantime they will say they’re not doing it because of battery life or because the user experience isn’t what they expected or because the screens are weaker or because…
It’s always something with them.
Apple always know best.
In the meantime they will say they’re not doing it because of battery life or because the user experience isn’t what they expected or because the screens are weaker or because…
It’s always something with them.
Apple always know best.
Apple generally designs their hardware to last 5+years. If part of the tech degrades faster then it wouldn't be something Apple would put in. I have always respected Apple for the strength of their tech. (Butterfly keyboard excepted.)
I see this technology being used in VR gloves so people can interact with objects in virtual space. Feeling like you're holding virtual object will make it more real than grasping something that gives zero feedback.
Just like the Play-Doh was originally meant to clean wall paper, just like Slinky was originally meant to stablized senstive equipment about ships. This tech will lose it's original purpose and find success elsewhere.
Just like the Play-Doh was originally meant to clean wall paper, just like Slinky was originally meant to stablized senstive equipment about ships. This tech will lose it's original purpose and find success elsewhere.
Oh man, that guy again. I swear, he appears in so many flash-in-the-pan product commercials. EDIT: Looks like @lazyrighteye beat me to it but I, for one, do not care what happened to him nor do I want to see him in product videos again.
Interesting concept but "auto-correct anxiety"? Is that a thing?
Apple was working on this stuff years and years ago, but it never quite got anywhere. This was definitely one of Jobs' holy grails for phone interface.
This is brilliant. I love being able to see behind the scenes, when technology first emerges and it is still in its lab form. The iPhone Home Screen demo was cool, but it will be fun to see how/when this ever makes it to market, and how it evolves.
I wrote a paper for my design class at SF State a few years ago similar to this. My design would have used an array of thousands of push pins to form a 3d tactile surface covered with a thin elastic surface. The lidar camera would allow whatever the camera is pointing at to create an elevation bas relief 3d image extruded from the "phone" up to 3mm. I ran up against the problem of controlling the vast array of pins, as it wasn't possible at the time.
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Durability, scratch resistance and structural strength are literally the key reasons why glass is used.
Sounds cool but we’ve been hearing about this kind of stuff for years.
I know its a prototype, but if they can never get it to return to 100% uniformly smooth after deflation then no thanks. It'd be worse than the crease in foldables.
Can we get Smell-o-vision first, a screen that mixes certain chemicals to produce distinct odours that match what you see on the screen.