Touché: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids, and Everyday Objects

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A Disney Research demo of Touche, a sensing technique that detects how a touch happens, not just where. It turns the human body, liquids and everyday objects into touch interfaces, using swept frequency capacitive sensing.

HN people keep recommending it as a favorite from Disney Research, and cite it as a way to make devices aware of the physical context of touch.

“Their Disney Research Hub channel is a goldmine. One of my favorites is Touché.”
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@jorvi2024 · in “Disney unveils the HoloTile floor”
Disney researches / develops some really cool stuff. Their Disney Research Hub channel is a goldmine. One of my favorites is Touché. The world becomes your touchscreen: ▶ this video
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@smtddr2014 · in “Fluid Actuators from Disney Research Make Soft, Safe Robot Arms”
If you liked this, check out another project from Disney labs called "Touché" -- ▶ this video For some reason, the girl's reactions to the 2 bzzzt-wrong sounds @ 2:55 are hilarious.
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@snambi2012 · in “Touché: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids”
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@acangiano2012 · in “Touché: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids, and Objects”
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@solipsist2012 · in “Touché from Disney [video]”
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@wglb2012 · in “Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids, and Everyday Objects ”
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@jorvi2025 · in “Meta Ray-Ban Display”
Disney is about to have a serious talk with Facebook. Disney Research has had a prototype on gesture detection via wristband electric sensing tech since 2012: ▶ this video
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@Etheryte2024 · in “Disney unveils the HoloTile floor”
This is really cool tech, but the first application concept is hilarious [0]. If you hook a cereal bowl up to this device, you can have it make a loud sound if your child puts their hand in the bowl as opposed to using a spoon? That's simultaneously funny and utterly dystopian. [0] ▶ this video
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@Gigablah2012 · in “Show HN: A multi-touch document manipulation system”
The "false touch" problem is solvable: "Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing" ▶ this video Basically the idea is to make devices aware of the physical context of user interactions.
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