{"id":690,"date":"2006-11-29T23:25:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T23:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/690"},"modified":"2006-11-29T23:25:57","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T23:25:57","slug":"tai-chi-turns-your-desk-into-a-touch-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/690","title":{"rendered":"Tai-Chi turns your desk into a touch-pad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Scientist has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientisttech.com\/article\/dn10673-acoustic-sensors-make-surfaces-interactive.html\">write-up<\/a> on an EU-funded prototype system called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taichi.cf.ac.uk\/\">Tai-Chi<\/a> that can turn ordinary surfaces into a touch-pad input device just by attaching a tiny piezoelectric sensor (i.e. microphone) to the surface. In one configuration, the system figures out where you&#8217;re touching \/ tapping by listening to how vibrations are distorted by the object and then either comparing to a database of vibration &#8220;fingerprints.&#8221; The method requires calibration to create the database, but they&#8217;re claiming accuracy to within a few millimeters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Scientist has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientisttech.com\/article\/dn10673-acoustic-sensors-make-surfaces-interactive.html\">write-up<\/a> on an EU-funded prototype system called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taichi.cf.ac.uk\/\">Tai-Chi<\/a> that can turn ordinary surfaces into a touch-pad input device just by attaching a tiny piezoelectric sensor (i.e. microphone) to the surface. 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