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May 17, 2012

5 Transformative Uses for Disney’s Touch-Sensitive Technology

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by Christopher Mims, Technology Review

Wearable computing, the end of keyboards, enhanced security and sex could all benefit from Touché. Disney has a new technology, called Touche, that can turn any object, including the human body, into a touch-sensitive surface that recognizes not only when contact has been made, but what kind of contact it is. Plenty of places have covered the details of how this technology works — which are fascinating. But I have to admit that what should have been the most exciting part of Disney’s presentation on Touché — the use cases — left me flat. So here are five use cases that could transform this technology from an interesting oddity to something potentially transformative.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27848/?p1=blogs

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