Motorola has invested an undisclosed sum into Sensitive Object, a multi-touch company, in a move that could signal a new generation of interfaces for the troubled cell phone maker, according to the company.
Sensitive Object's interface differs from today's capacitive and older resistive touch screens by--get this--using software to analyze sound waves coming from the point of each touch. The idea is to create a more natural, acoustic-based interface that includes multi-touch, virtual controls, and other three-dimensional controls, the report said. (Here are a few graphic representations of what they're talking about.)
Motorola's handset arm looked left for dead earlier in the year, but seems to be resurgent thanks to the Droid and other Android-powered smart devices.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2356637,00.aspCards take on thisOk, so Card Storm is about to get excited. If you guys aren't familiar with me when I was over at CrackBerry.com, I was crazy over the introduction of piezo technology to the Storm 2. I followed this phone till it's release and did some deep research on the benefits of Piezo technology. So as I was reading more into this new technology Motorola is now using, it sounded too familiar when they said "sound waves". Now for those of you who don't know, piezo electricity and sound waves directly correlates. Every heard of an Acoustic guitar? They are the same Acoustic that are used with piezo electricity. The technology picks up vibrations turning them into sound waves. The website of the manufacturer of the new Motorola screen tech also states this tech will use piezo. Not like our Storm 2's do however. I said previously that piezo electricity in mobile devices will become the next big thing because of all of its uses, so I can't wait to see further how this tech takes advantage of it.
More info on this tech, visit
http://www.sensitive-object.com/-SO-Touch,75-?lang=en
