As the rise of the Coronavirus pandemic has made every surface we touch potentially life-threatening, we have seen companies and organizations come up with touchless technologies to minimize physical contact with any kind of surface, especially those in public spaces. So now, a Singapore-based innovation studio has developed a new kind of touchless technology that mimics the pressing of a button without actually pressing it. Sounds confusing? Let me explain.
The studio is calling it “Kinetic Touchless” technology that aims to bring “the human touch back to contactless tech”. So, as you can imagine, it is a unique interaction process with contactless tech and looks like something we will see in future smart cities.
Now, the company has already made a working prototype of the contactless button with the Kinetic Touchless technology and aims to implement them in elevators. The creators also released a pretty cool video showcasing the working of the final product. You can check it out right below.
So, as you can see, the touchless buttons react to the motion of the finger in real-time and it actually presses the button even when there is no physical pressure applied to it. The video also shows the buttons’ reaction to the sliding gesture of the finger as they all light-up as soon as the finger comes near to any of them.
