Touche technology from Disney could revolutionize touch gestures

A new touch sensing technology by Disney could drastically alter the way we interact with our environment, our tools, and our technology.

Touche can be used in a wide variety of applications, from expanded touchscreen interfaces on smartphones, to everyday objects such as doorknobs, and even liquids. It can also be used to track hand gestures and transmit the results wirelessly to a device over Bluetooth.

It accomplishes all this by detecting capacitive input across a wide range of frequencies, rather than the one solitary “on-or-off” frequency found in current capacitive touch sensing.