Researchers have developed the world's first soft touchpad that can sense the force, area and location of contact without electricity. The device utilizes pneumatic channels, enabling its use in ...

May 19, 2009 Sharp Corporation is releasing a new notebook PC with an innovative optical sensor built into an LCD touch pad – which the company claims is a world first – at the end of the month. While ...

The pneumatic touchpad is made of soft silicone. It contains 32 channels, each only a few hundred micrometres wide, that adapt to touch. Pneumatic sensors can collect much data by touch. Researchers ...