Miracle Film Turns Any Surface into a Touchscreen

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Jolie O'Dell
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Miracle Film Turns Any Surface into a Touchscreen
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You could place Skin on any surface, transparent or opaque, flat or curved, and use it to display any interactive content you like. Displax's multi-touch technology can detect up to 16 fingers at once and can also detect air movement.

Skin is completely transparent and works on surfaces that are also transparent; you can place Skin on a glass surface and interact with content displayed under the glass.

This unique hardware operates via a grid of nanowires embedded Skin's polymer film. Each time a user makes contact with the surface, either by blowing on it or directly touching it, "a small electrical disturbance is detected allowing the micro-processor controller to pinpoint the movement or direction of the air flow," according to Displax.

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We can imagine millions of cool use cases for such a technology -- business presentations, medicine, museums, schools, and gaming to start. The possibilities are as endless as our collective and ever-growing want and need to interact with digital content through multi-touch interfaces.

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