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<strong>Las Vegas—</strong>The touchscreen on your smartphone is not enough. You need at least… three more touch-and-pressure-sensitive areas to be able to fully interact with your device!
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That’s the premise behind Sensus, an iPhone case that enhances apps and extends the user interface onto the sides and back of your phone with rubbery touch strips. While this may sound confusing, it looks quite simple—or at least it did on the pre-production model I saw at CES ShowStoppers on Tuesday.
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The Sensus is about the size of a basic iPhone case: Slim, made of polycarbonate plastic, with rounded corners and a bottom that extends about a half-inch beyond the iPhone's lower-most edge. (The case is powered by your phone and plugs into the lightning jack). The sides have rubbery strips of touch/pressure sensitive material, while the back has an entire swatch of the stuff. The pre-production model was all black, but we may see a variety of colors and patterns when the case debuts this summer.
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Canopy, the Minneapolis-based tech company behind Sensus, showed off a similar case at last year’s CES—one that was touch-only, able to record swipes, slides, and taps on the sides and back of the phone. The new case has resistive as well as capacitive sensors, so it can not only tell when you’re touching the case, but also how hard you’re touching the case. A representative demoed this pressure-sensitive feature with an app that responded based on how hard I squeezed the sides of the case.
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Pressure-detecting Sensus case turns your entire iPhone into a touchscreen
