now I'm sure you've heard the terms Force touch or 3D touch floating around
the internet lately but aside from their apparent affiliation with the most
controversially loved or hated fruit in the tech world what do these terms
really mean is 3D touch just a cool hologram that projects from your phone
is force touch a way to channel your inner Jedi when you're using your phone
sadly no these terms refer to capacitive
touch screens that are capable of reading how hard you press on them and
while that might not sound like a big deal it could change a lot about the way
we interact with our touchscreen devices in the future so how do they work then
well there are so many different manufacturers starting to patent their
own designs that there isn't really a industry standard method yet but in the
case of Apple devices there is a grid of special capacitive sensors and strain
gauges placed behind the screen's backlight that measure microscopic
changes in distance between the cover glass and the backlight itself so when
you press harder on the screen the distance between the glass and backlight
is shorter resulting in force input 3D
touch is even capable of reading multiple levels of pressure allowing for
more interface options like the ones that we see in the iPhone 6s Force touch
however is only capable of detecting a single level of pressure and is better
suited for devices like the Apple watch which can benefit from additional
interface options but might not have the room for the extra hardware and screen
thickness necessary for 3D touch so the
concept itself then seems pretty straightforward you press on the screen
and the device recognizes where and how hard but what puts this feature into
practice is the software designed around it most of the current uses for 3D touch
revolve around shortcuts and convenience for example you could press on the
Twitter app harder to be able to immediately start typing up your Tweet
without having to navigate through the app itself or you could press on a
preview of a picture or attachment and it would show it to you without fully
opening it or leaving your current application this is essentially like
having right click and middle click and more different ways of clicking even on
devices that would normally have such small screens that they wouldn't have
enough navigation buttons to be able to put in all of that functionality now at
the moment this technology is not available on that many devices but what
does the future hold for those of us who aren't a fan of the
will pressure sensitive screens become the new standard in the near future at
this point it's impossible to be 100% sure this new tech has opened many
possibilities for the way we interact with our devices but one could argue
that these changes add another level of complexity and more room for accidental
input especially in bumpy situations where you might not have the best
Precision behind your press that being said though 3D and force touch are
opening many doors for thir third party app developers to expand existing apps
or develop new ones and for our Android Brothers synaptics promises to bring
what they call clear force their own take on pressure sensitive screens to
several unnamed Android Flagship phones in early 2016 it's unclear at this time
what clear force will enable in terms of functionality but I'm hoping for new
ways of interacting with mobile games and ways to type in all caps when you're
super mad which I guess brings us to the part of the video where normally I would
with a Cheesy pun but for this one I realized that I just have to push too
hard to find a good one Speaking of pushing I'm going to push you guys to
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