Beyond the touchscreen: Researchers develop acoustically driven controls for smartphones
Monday, April 20, 2015 - 10:20
in Physics & Chemistry
As people find ever more inventive uses for smartphones, touchscreens sometimes fall short as control surfaces. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research have developed an inexpensive alternative - a toolbox of physical knobs, sliders and other mechanisms that can be readily added to any device.