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now I'm sure you've heard the terms Force touch or 3D touch floating around

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the internet lately but aside from their apparent affiliation with the most

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controversially loved or hated fruit in the tech world what do these terms

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really mean is 3D touch just a cool hologram that projects from your phone

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is force touch a way to channel your inner Jedi when you're using your phone

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sadly no these terms refer to capacitive

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touch screens that are capable of reading how hard you press on them and

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while that might not sound like a big deal it could change a lot about the way

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we interact with our touchscreen devices in the future so how do they work then

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well there are so many different manufacturers starting to patent their

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own designs that there isn't really a industry standard method yet but in the

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case of Apple devices there is a grid of special capacitive sensors and strain

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gauges placed behind the screen's backlight that measure microscopic

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changes in distance between the cover glass and the backlight itself so when

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you press harder on the screen the distance between the glass and backlight

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is shorter resulting in force input 3D

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touch is even capable of reading multiple levels of pressure allowing for

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more interface options like the ones that we see in the iPhone 6s Force touch

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however is only capable of detecting a single level of pressure and is better

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suited for devices like the Apple watch which can benefit from additional

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interface options but might not have the room for the extra hardware and screen

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thickness necessary for 3D touch so the

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concept itself then seems pretty straightforward you press on the screen

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and the device recognizes where and how hard but what puts this feature into

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practice is the software designed around it most of the current uses for 3D touch

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revolve around shortcuts and convenience for example you could press on the

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Twitter app harder to be able to immediately start typing up your Tweet

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without having to navigate through the app itself or you could press on a

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preview of a picture or attachment and it would show it to you without fully

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opening it or leaving your current application this is essentially like

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having right click and middle click and more different ways of clicking even on

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devices that would normally have such small screens that they wouldn't have

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enough navigation buttons to be able to put in all of that functionality now at

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the moment this technology is not available on that many devices but what

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does the future hold for those of us who aren't a fan of the

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will pressure sensitive screens become the new standard in the near future at

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this point it's impossible to be 100% sure this new tech has opened many

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possibilities for the way we interact with our devices but one could argue

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that these changes add another level of complexity and more room for accidental

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input especially in bumpy situations where you might not have the best

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Precision behind your press that being said though 3D and force touch are

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opening many doors for thir third party app developers to expand existing apps

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or develop new ones and for our Android Brothers synaptics promises to bring

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what they call clear force their own take on pressure sensitive screens to

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several unnamed Android Flagship phones in early 2016 it's unclear at this time

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what clear force will enable in terms of functionality but I'm hoping for new

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ways of interacting with mobile games and ways to type in all caps when you're

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super mad which I guess brings us to the part of the video where normally I would

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with a Cheesy pun but for this one I realized that I just have to push too

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