Next For Touchscreens: Temporary Pop-Up Buttons?

rex · #1 (**permalink**) 07-20-2009, 01:34 PM

interesting. so I can finally move away from treo form factor??

Check it out here
http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...e/4324960.html

The whole point of a beautiful slab of touchscreen like that on the iPhone or Microsoft Surface is that it doesn't have buttons. But what if touchscreens could have temporary, pop-up buttons when necessary, that could appear one moment and disappear the next?

badutahboy · #2 (**permalink**) 07-20-2009, 05:45 PM

That would be an AWESOME feature for things like phone dialers, etc... One of the very few things I miss about a normal phone is the ability to dial/text by touch...

**O'Neil Mitchell** · #3 (**permalink**) 07-20-2009, 06:14 PM

Looks cool, but I could only imagine all the problems