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October 19, 2011 08:06 pm GMT

New Screen Technology, TapSense, Can Distinguish Between Different Parts Of Your Hand

And you thought multitouch gestures were annoying - how about mashing your whole hand on your screen to close an app or rapping on it with your knuckle to summon Siri (or Iris?). A new technology from Carnegie Mellon's Human Computer Interaction Institute allows your device to distinguish between different types of taps using a microphone and touchscreen.Created by Chris Harrison, the same guy who brought us Omnitouch, the technology "doubles the bandwidth" when it comes to touch interaction.

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