Sensus: Case for iPhone with the touch surface [CES 2013]

At CES 2013 the company has demonstrated a unique Canopy accessory for iPhone. Case called Sensus turns back panel of the smartphone Apple in the touch surface. That way the user will be able to play and use applications without closing the device's screen with your fingers.

 

Using the new product, the owner of iPhone can comfortably read, play, and scroll the pages of sites on the Internet, without touching the display. In this unique case, like any other case protects your device from bumps and other external influences.

In case embedded microprocessors that handle contact the owner, recognizing at the same time up to ten different teams. The surface of the cover, according to the manufacturer, is more sensitive than the phone screen. It is noteworthy that the touch panel is not one, but two: the second is on the side of the unit.

Sensus is connected to the dock connector of iPhone, using it to connect with your device. Accessory works without a battery, so do not add significant weight of the phone, but the additional drain on the battery. The only remaining issue: support for application developers and games.

The device goes on sale in the first quarter of the year ata price of 59 to 99 dollars . On the timing of release case for iPhone 5 is not reported.

Sharp IGZO showed the benefits of technology for the next iPhone and iPad

Japanese company Sharp in the exhibition CES 2013 held an official presentation of the display technology IGZO, which is rumored to be used in smartphones and tablets Apple the next generation.

According to the demonstration video Sharp, screens, made on technology IGZO (Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide), mobile devices provide several advantages competitors. First, the technology allows you to see the display even after the power is turned off, saving battery power while displaying a still image by 80-90%. Smartphones and tablets with IGZO-displays can have ultra-thin frame and have a level of sensitivity to the touch "at the level of plain paper."

The panels are used IGZO transistors based on indium, gallium and zinc, silicon and not, as in the traditional screens. This development is in color rendering and better dynamics of modern LCD technology and economical in consumption and thinner design.

Not surprisingly, in Cupertino hope abandon conventional IPS-screens in their mobile devices in favor of the panels, which use technology IGZO. According to rumors, Apple is in talks with Sharp on this, as well as trying to find out whether it is possible to produce such displays on the production line L5C, owned by AU Optronics (AUO).