Apple’s New “Force-Sensitive Touch-Surface” Patent Showcases New Design Concept
A recent patent application filed by Apple reveals that the concern is still battling with the best way to address putting a QWERTY keypad on a phone or digital player is by utilizing a second touchscreen on the back of the device. The “force-sensitive touch-surface” will not only allow for the usual typing, scrolling and selecting, but will reportedly have cursor control as...
Fraunhofer Institute Developing Noise Cancelling Windows
Thilo Bein and a team of engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability have developed noise canceling windows. Windows transfer noise because they vibrate like a speaker cone, by controlling the vibration, Bein and pals have been able to reduce sounds at 90-100 decibels by about 50% percent. Bein used small patches made of a ceramic piezoelectric compound, which senses “incoming...
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