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At the touch of a button, the flat keyboard on mobile devices become "full" of some stuff and you can FEEL the keys as you type. I don't know how to embed the vid, so here's the link. 1:23 in length
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20970928
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)for portable computers.
derby378
(30,252 posts)That is just too freaky cool for words. Wonder if there's a medical application this could be used for?
gateley
(62,683 posts)seeing these keys APPEAR and RISE in the video was really sci-fi-ish -- like it was CGI in a movie.
If the technology is viable and "good", I imagine it could be applied to a myriad of applications. We may be taking this for granted not too far into the future.
derby378
(30,252 posts)First time I used a USB drive, it seemed like voodoo in my hand. A little stick that held 16MB and transferred it faster than you could blink. Now here I am seven years later, and I've got a 32GB drive tucked away in my laptop bag, and it is loaded with nothing but MP3s. It's like an iPod on steroids, as long as you have something to plug it into.
gateley
(62,683 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)The skin of the touchscreen has to be flexible, and goes through a lot of repeated stress, so I'd be surprised if the touchscreen stays shiny factory flat for very long.
gateley
(62,683 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)I can't remember the name of it but there's a line in it that very advanced technology looks no different than magic to people who see it.
That looked like magic to me.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)That is certainly nifty. Someone make a note of this and check in, let's say, on 1 July 2014 to see if it's on the market. My bet? Not a chance. Or it will be bought by Apple and shelved.