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# Think the rear sensor on the Vita was cool? Disney Research’s Touche turns your doorknob into a touch device.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/think-rear-sensor-vita-was-cool-disney-researchs-touche-turns-your-doorknob-touch-device/
- Published: 2012-05-07T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-26T10:36:38.000Z
- Description: Video I love how games adopt to new interfaces. Drops in prices in accelerometer technology normally found in airbag sensors enabled the Wii and the infra-red and motion-sensing tech in the Kinect allows games like Star Wars Kinect. (Maybe that’s not a good thing). Today, a group at Disney Research
- Author: Jamin Warren
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

[Video](http://youtu.be/E4tYpXVTjxA?ref=killscreen.com)

I love how games adopt to new interfaces. Drops in prices in accelerometer technology normally found in airbag sensors enabled the Wii and the infra-red and motion-sensing tech in the Kinect allows games like *Star Wars Kinect*. (Maybe that’s not a good thing).

Today, a group at Disney Research will unveil the results from their [Touché](http://www.disneyresearch.com/research/projects/hci%5Ftouche%5Fdrp.htm?ref=killscreen.com) system which turns everyday objects in touch devices. Check the doorknob example above. As the New Scientist explains:

> It works thanks to capacitive sensing, in which an electrical signal passing through the object changes when touched by a conductive material, such as a human finger. Capacitive sensing is already found in smartphone touchscreens, but these devices use electrical signals at only a single frequency, whereas Touché works with a range of frequencies.

Having played both *Fingle* and *Bloop* over the weekend, I can see lots of cool implementations of this for games in the future.

\[Via [New Scientist](http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/05/touche-brings-touch-controls-t.html?ref=killscreen.com)\]