Pressure Sensitive Phone Case

Canopy, a Minneapolis-based startup, thinks touch screens limit how we interact with our smartphones. And this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show here, the company debuted the latest version of Sensus, an iPhone case that transforms the back and sides of your phone into large, pressure-sensitive touch pad. This, Canopy says, has two advantages: It allows people to use their phones without touching the screen, increasing the viewable area (great for playing games). It also lets people use varying pressure to get different responses from apps and games. This could definitely open doors for mobile application development in so many different dimensions. I can just imagine the news ways in which people will be interacting with their phones. It seems like people constantly need a different interface and the tech companies are looking for problems to which they have a solution for. Interestingly enough nearly all windows phones already have a pressure sensitive screen.