Tactile Touchpoints

What's a key difference between ordinary products and smart products? Smart products have senses. Many of today's smart products can see and hear - but what can the sense of touch do to better serve the end user? By sharing real-world cases and idea-generating concepts, Tactile Touchpoints aims to inspire engineers of the world's smart products to consider how embedding tactile force sensors can create new outlets for advancement in their respective markets.

In a recent Machine Design article written by Bradford L Goldense, advancements in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) and Internet of Things (IOT) concepts are likely to ramp up over the next decade. Goldense mentions that sensors of all types will be needed to generate the source data that...

What's a key difference between ordinary products and smart products? Smart products have senses. Our world is becoming more automated by the day, which means end users expect their products to accomplish more tasks with less effort. One major challenge design engineers of the world's smart products...