Today we are focusing on capacitive touch buttons, which began to pop up on several models a few years ago, but have been widely criticized by drivers to the point where automakers have backtracked on ...

With iPhone 7, Apple updated its iconic home button from a mechanical push-button design to a solid-state sensor stack, meaning it requires direct contact with skin, or a capacitive glove, to operate.

As discovered by Myke Hurley (via Daring Fireball), some iPhone 7 and 7 Plus users are going to have a tough time unlocking their devices during wintertime. As it turns out, the new "solid-state" Home ...

“A big reason we saw this rush towards screens and smoother touch or touch-haptic surfaces is because the development costs ...

There are pictures floating around the intertubes today that purportedly show a next-generation iPod Touch with no physical home button. It’s shown up on CrunchGear and 9to5Mac. And it’s almost ...

Capacitive touch sensing is a popular alternative to mechanical switches and knobs in consumer electronics, white goods, and automotive applications. In traditional designs, capacitive touch sensing ...

Capacitive touch sensors are entirely in the domain of DIY, requiring little more than a carefully-chosen conductive surface and a microcontroller. This led [John Phillips] to ask why not embed such ...

Miss Part 1, Part II and Part III?Just click on link. In Part 3 of this series, we covered the design of home appliances and security keypads as sample applications and how MBR devices can be ...

An established Chinese leaker has pushed back against recent rumors suggesting Apple plans to eliminate the Camera Control ...

“Interactive Fish Tank” is an installation that explores new, wet boundaries in touch-based interfaces. Developed in 2011 by Manuela Donoso and Crys Moore, Masters candidates at NYU’s Interactive ...

You can buy small modules with capacitive touch detection ICs — most often it’s the TTP223, a single-button capacitive model with configurable output modes. These are designed to pair with a ...