Since smartphones have been introduced in the global market, countless startups have emerged on the scene, creating various apps, software and innovative technologies for this new breed of mobile devices. Now another startup is set to amaze smartphone users with its innovative technology. Smartphone and touchscreen users have been poking, tapping, swiping or steering their touch screens with one or two fingers. However, thanks to Qeexo, you will enable your touch screens to distinguish between knuckles, nails and fingertips as well.
This latest technology is called FingerSense and California-based firm, The San Jose introduced it to the world. The benefit of this technology is that users can bring up different options on their mobile screens through Qeexo. For instance, with the knock of a knuckle an email will pop up while knocking twice with knuckles a new page will come up. A picture can be smudged with a finger, while a touch with you nail will give you new controls in games. You can also draw pictures with a stylus and remove the image with the softer side of stylus along with other distinctions made depending on the medium used to touch the screen.
This amazing concept behind Qeexo was created by two graduates of the Carnegie Mellon University, Julia Schwarz and Chris Harrison, who developed it when they were working on detecting various kinds of styluses on large touch screen (backlit version of a large ikea table). Later they shrunk the size of this technology and refined it further before transferring it into a Samsung smartphone to make their first prototype device.
Qeexo managed to perform all these tasks through its acoustic sensor that grasps sounds (made by knuckles, fingers and nails) or vibrations together with data like where the touch took place, how big the impression was and then transmits the information to the software on the phone, which then distinguish between different touches and opens the menu or controls accordingly. Qeexo seems to be making lot of vibes with their FingerSense technology, as they are already busy talking with different mobile phone manufacturers and hopes that they will be able to install this technology in smartphones in a year or so.
However, Ben Bajarin, a Creative Strategies analyst, does not agree with Qeexo, as he believes that, “It just takes time for ecosystems like that to develop and get on board. I’d say a few years at a minimum, but we’re probably looking at longer than that”.
Source: Technology Review
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