Tactus Touchscreen Physical Keyboard
Tactus Technology has introduce a new touchscreen keyboard for smartphone and tablet devices. It is completely flat and smooth touchscreen in which physical buttons bubble up when the keyboard appears.
The magical screen on which the buttons appear out of nowhere and then disappear just as before is something we could all use. The morphing hardware can be used to make typing easier and more natural. The tactile buttons are not limited to keyboards alone and can be used for gaming controls to provide an enhanced gaming experience.
Tactus has created a thin layer that can replace the Gorilla Glass on top of the touch sensor and display layers of a smartphone or tablet. The surface of that layer is a semi-elastic polymer under which there are little channels filled with a special transparent micro-fluid. To make buttons appear (for a keyboard, a game controller, whatever), you can increase the fluid pressure in a certain area. The added fluid physically stretches and raises the polymer surface.
