The future of touch screens might allow you to feel things through the screen. New deformable touch screen technology, named DeformIO, has been developed by scientists at Britain's University of Bath.

From virtual reality to rehabilitation and communication, haptic technology has revolutionized the way humans interact with the digital world. While early haptic devices focused on single-sensory cues ...

Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode "The skin we're in" Why does tech still struggle to mimic the human superpower of touch? Mechanical engineer Katherine Kuchenbecker grapples with this question as ...

How about a display that can take the shape of a real keyboard? The surface of the display will become elevated to mimic the physical buttons of a keypad and then disappear just as quickly as they ...

The interest in antimicrobial solutions for personal and multi-user touch screens, such as tablets and mobile devices, has grown in recent years. Traditional methods like sprayable alcohols or wipes ...

Touch screens with resistive technology have been in common use for many years. They are inexpensive to manufacture and easy to interface. In resistive-technology sensing, electrodes are connected to ...