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Makes me wonder what could be done with a pressure sensitive screen and something like electrostatics to produce "texture".
by digi_owl 10y ago
Makes me wonder what could be done with a pressure sensitive screen and something like electrostatics to produce "texture".
- Klathmon 10y agoHonestly I don't think that "textured" screens would help all that much, audio can just convey so much more information. For example, when you have the android accessibility stuff on, when you scroll in any kind of list, it makes these tones. They start at one pitch at the top, and end at another pitch at the bottom. After a bit of use, you start to intuitively understand where you are in the list just by the pitch it's making. Other things like vibrations for when you are hovering over important elements and more really lets you "see" what is there pretty well. What would improve it is something 3d-touch-esque. Being able to have a light touch be "hover" and a hard press be "touch" would make it much easier than the current system (IIRC it's double-tapping for touch, and other things like 2-fingers for scrolling)
- 323454 10y agoWhat if you could produce braille on a touch screen?
- bpicolo 10y agoThere are a few such things out there, http://www.popsci.com/new-touch-screen-design-could-display-in-braille http://www.popsci.com/new-touch-screen-design-could-display-... The cost to produce them is probably very high, I imagine, especially when alternatives (like good audio/voice stuff) can do the job.