Touch technology advances enhance user interfaces across consumer and industrial electronics. Innovations in capacitive sensors, haptics, and display integration mark notable milestones. Touch news covers product developments driving intuitive electronics design worldwide. Electronics Weekly readers follow touch news to learn how evolving interfaces improve device functionality and user experience.
EBE Sensors + Motion has introduced a touch sensor evaluation board for challenging environments. It implements a technology branded ‘TCRC’, which is aimed at operating panels in industry, construction machinery, medical environments and kitchens, for example. “Whether in freezing cold, tropical heat, wet, or dusty environments, TCRC sensors work reliably,” claimed EBE. “They can be operated with gloves or dirty ...
Infineon has introduced automotive microcontrollers with capacitive touch sensing for sensor and actuator applications. The PSOC 4 HVMS family is built around a 24 or 48MHz Arm Cortex-M0+ processor, with up to 128kbyte of flash and 8kbyte of ram. The ICs also have what Infineon calls ‘high-voltage’ capability for almost-direct connection to 12 and 24V vehicle batteries as they include an ...
F-Tac is a robot hand that can sense touch with 100μm resolution across 70% of its grasping surface, and can grasp using that touch feedback. “The spatial resolution combined with the enormous coverage are truly novel and were not possible previously,” claimed team member Professor Kaspar Althoefer (pictured), director of the Centre of Excellence Advanced Robotics at Queen Mary University, ...
Infineon has augmented touch sensing and liquid level sensing it a new series of MCUs. Devices in the 4000T family have hardware and software to implement: enhanced capacitive touch sensing, inductive touch sensing and capacitive liquid sensing. “Developers now have endless possibilities to develop new HMI and sensing solutions, from sleek metallic designs with touch-on-metal buttons, to waterproof touch-buttons and ...
Lumissil Microsystems has introduce a speciallist RISC-V microcontroller for touch-controlled LED-based user interfaces, with optional sound feedback. There are two versions: IS31CS9310 for industrial use and AEC-Q100 grade-1 qualified IS32CS9310 for automotive use. An 8 x 12 LED matrix driver is the primary peripheral, with eight PMOS switches and 12 built-in 80mA PWM-controlled current sinks, that allow each LED to ...
Zytronic has introduced a round touch display module which can be mounted onto a wall or integrated into a table. “Designers can take advantage of Zytronic’s in-house glass processing capabilities to add surface carved joggle-wheels, buttons and sliders that offer users an enhanced tactile and responsive touch experience.,” according to the company. “In addition, Zytronic’s bespoke glass printing services can ...
STMicroelectronics is emphasising power consumption and security for a range of 56MHz Arm Cortex-M0+ microcontrollers. Called STM32U0, the “MCUs can reduce energy consumption by up to 50% compared to previous product generations”, said the company. It “allows more designs to go battery-free, running solely from an energy-harvesting system such as a small photovoltaic cell”. On the same day, ST announced ...
Alps Alpine has launched a touchless capacitive overlay to add proximity control to 15.6inch displays. Detection range is 50 – 80mm for hand or finger proximity, 30 – 50mm to select an action and 0-30mm to activate an action. “Capacitive touch panels offer intuitive input and control. The flipside is that normal capacitive touch panel input is obstructed by wet ...
Fabless touch controller IC company TouchNetix has raised around $12m (actually 120MNOK). Investing companies included: Alliance Venture, Bergan, Calypso Invest, Djerv Holding, Fyrva, Investinor, Investitude, LER Invest, Motor-Trade Eiendom & Finans, R Munkhaugen, Reitan Kapital and Wiski Capital. The financial advisor was Sparebank 1 Markets. “We are delighted to be supported by such a strong base of investors, and that ...
A priceless Korean medical encyclopaedia, first published in 1613, is now available for the public to interact with virtually the National Library of Korea Compiled by royal physician Heo Jun, the originals are locked away for safe keeping, but a high-resolution scan has been animated on a novel display surface by Seoul-based company Ubidus. “Many companies have developed digital books ...
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