Capacitive and multi-touch touchscreen
Pantalla táctil capacitiva y multitáctil
- Date
- 1965 · confidence medium
- Place
- Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern, United Kingdom; FingerWorks, Newark, Delaware, United States (multi-touch, 1999-2005)
- Credited to
- E. A. Johnson (RRE, 1965); Wayne Westerman and John Elias (FingerWorks); Jeff Han (NYU, 2006)
- People
- 👤 Edward A. Johnson1860–1944👤 John Elias1963–
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A surface that detects a finger by its capacitance without pressure and, in its multi-touch version, several fingers and gestures at once. It is the interface of the smartphone and the tablet.
Apple acquired FingerWorks in 2005.
What it led to
- The iPhone and the disappearance of the physical keyboard
- Pinch and swipe gestures as a universal language
- The omnipresent touchscreens of cash machines, kiosks and panels
Built on
- resistive touchscreen
- CRT
- air traffic control
Made possible
- Modern smartphone (iPhone)2007
- Tablet computer (iPad)2010
- interactive kiosks