[SlashGear]
Announced last week, the new finger-tracking kit uses light rather than physical touch sensors: in Neonode’s demo, you can reach through the frame and control on-screen graphics. However, Neonode envisages special cutaway sections showing up on tablets, phones and laptops, allowing us to more precisely interact with the device UI. …
By layering several of the optical sensors into the body of the new frame, however, the new tech can track far more than just pressure – it can follow motion of two fingers in 3D space. Neonode only develops the hardware technology, not the software – that’s left up to the company’s manufacturing partners…
Neonode says its optical touch sensors are cheaper to implement than even resistive traditional touchscreens, at less than a dollar apiece, and even the new frame version should be a similar price. It’s also artificially thick in this demo implementation: the final design could be as little as 2mm thick. …
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