Microsoft files patent for shape-shifting and light-sensitive touchscreens
Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 01/12/2010 20:57
Microsoft is working on touchscreens that wouldn't simply lay flat -- as many smart phones and tablet computers do now -- but would offer displays that rise up and change shape to simulate textures and objects in different apps.
The shape-shifting touchscreen technology was disclosed by Microsoft in a patent application describing just how the company is working to bring textures to touchscreens.
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