A second automaker has realized that going all-out on capacitive touch buttons is the wrong move. First, Honda backtracked, giving the 10th-generation Civic a physical volume knob to replace the touch ...

There’s no denying the impact that smartphones and tablets have had on modern vehicles. Look into just about any new car and you’ll find a touchscreen and maybe even a bank of capacitive touch buttons ...

Capacitive touch sensing has been traditionally used as a design differentiating technology to enable superior aesthetic designs for automotive infotainment applications. With devices maturing to the ...

The project is based on the QProx QT160 charge transfer proximity sensor chip which aims to develop a simple 6-button keypad. All the work is done by the chip which functions as the brain of the ...

There are pictures floating around the intertubes today that purportedly show a next-generation iPod Touch with no physical home button. It’s shown up on CrunchGear and 9to5Mac. And it’s almost ...