How does a touchscreen work ... Well, actually, this number goes down when you touch your screen with any material, but engineers have designed your phone to be sensitive to materials that ...

A touch screen consists of an array of small pressure sensors (strain gauges, load cells, etc.) arranged in the form of rows and columns (grid structure) on the rear ...

Touch screens work best for applications where you have very few options, Nielsen says, such as telephones, ATMs or on small, portable devices with little room for larger numbers of buttons.

But how do folding screens actually work? Whether you’ve always been curious about how folding screens work or have yet to consider it, we’ll give you a crash course in foldable displays and ...

Most resistive screens need to be calibrated periodically, or the touch sensing may not line up with the display. Also, the sensor degrades the image quality slightly. It’s difficult ...

Android apps are starting to trickle onto Chromebooks, and they work especially well ... Windows PCs than they do Android tablets and iPads. A touch screen is a nice bonus, allowing you to reach ...

But how does Force Touch work, and what is it like to use a Force ... you slide your finger around and press to control the on-screen pointer). Apple’s trackpad already has various gestures ...

So, what could sausages do that gloves couldn’t? In other words, how do touchscreens actually work? Charles Wallace and Sajan Saini dig into the science of touchscreens.