We now have a touch interface in a roll on form that can be used to cover any surface. It is a thin polymer skin that can detect up to 16 touches at once. And as this picture shows it can be used to cover excising output panels and add touch capability.
This is going to make the production of interfaces so much easier. Print out your custom interface on card and then apply this to cover it. Configure the software, which I would guess would be supplied, and test each coordinate and away we go. It will make an ordinary monitor into a touch screen monitor at a fraction of the price and enable tables and walls to be used for the input of data from projection outputs. Soon we can all have futuristic displays and input devices in our homes and offices on our existing devices and on our walls and furniture.
It would be ideal in security field as well. Having an alarm panel that was a montage of photographs. Just touch Uncle Bob (No sniggering at the back) and disable the alarm while touching Little Johnny sets off the alarm (serves you right). Having light switches and volume controls that are actually just pictures on a wall. Having a MP3 player that is a picture of a jukebox on the wall.
The next stage, hopefully a quick step away, is for this to layered on top of the roll on screens we have already developed to make a roll on wallpaper that can display images and also take input. This can enable photographs that cover a wall and will change when you touch them or a wall as a TV that pops a panel up where you touch and allow you to change the channel, volume or see who is at the front door via a camera.
If this is EMP proof it would also be very useful in military situations. Making consoles easier by allowing them to be configured by programming. Drop a config for a weapons control system in and see what is on a weapons control panel. Next person along configures it for a communications panel whilst it is reality a cardboard box covered in this new film. A bargain at $30K. Hell, there will be a console in every house that we can use for all our games than can interface into our computers and consoles.
A versatile touch interface
We now have a touch interface in a roll on form that can be used to cover any surface. It is a thin polymer skin that can detect up to 16 touches at once. And as this picture shows it can be used to cover excising output panels and add touch capability.
This is going to make the production of interfaces so much easier. Print out your custom interface on card and then apply this to cover it. Configure the software, which I would guess would be supplied, and test each coordinate and away we go. It will make an ordinary monitor into a touch screen monitor at a fraction of the price and enable tables and walls to be used for the input of data from projection outputs. Soon we can all have futuristic displays and input devices in our homes and offices on our existing devices and on our walls and furniture.
It would be ideal in security field as well. Having an alarm panel that was a montage of photographs. Just touch Uncle Bob (No sniggering at the back) and disable the alarm while touching Little Johnny sets off the alarm (serves you right). Having light switches and volume controls that are actually just pictures on a wall. Having a MP3 player that is a picture of a jukebox on the wall.
The next stage, hopefully a quick step away, is for this to layered on top of the roll on screens we have already developed to make a roll on wallpaper that can display images and also take input. This can enable photographs that cover a wall and will change when you touch them or a wall as a TV that pops a panel up where you touch and allow you to change the channel, volume or see who is at the front door via a camera.
If this is EMP proof it would also be very useful in military situations. Making consoles easier by allowing them to be configured by programming. Drop a config for a weapons control system in and see what is on a weapons control panel. Next person along configures it for a communications panel whilst it is reality a cardboard box covered in this new film. A bargain at $30K. Hell, there will be a console in every house that we can use for all our games than can interface into our computers and consoles.