Sony prototypes pressure-sensitive tactile touchscreen, hopes to use it ASAP

Sony may come up with some far-out ideas, but the company insists this one’s a bit closer to home: it’s a LCD touchscreen with force sensing resistors and piezoelectric actuators that can detect how much pressure is applied and vibrate the panel respectively. Tech-On was rocking the scene at Open House 2010, and reports that the Cover Flow-like interface shuffled icons faster the harder a demonstrator pressed down, an interesting UI quirk in and of itself. Though the publication sadly didn’t get to test out the tactile feedback for themselves, Sony said commercialization might not be too far off — when asked about that telling Sony Ericsson logo, the company asserted that it’d like to see the tech in mobile phones “as soon as possible.” We’d love to hold them to that, but unfortunately the applied pressure mechanic is just a prototype at this point.

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