Sony Mobile Evangelist

Sony Computer Science Laboratories (Sony CSL) Inc developed a touch panel that can generate tactile feedback and detect the amount of pressure applied to the panel.

The panel is targeted at mobile phones and was demonstrated at Open House 2010, which took place May 28, 2010. It can detect not only the x and y coordinates of a fingertip but also the pressure applied in the direction of the z-axis.

This time, Sony CSL combined the new touch panel with a small display device that looks like a mobile phone with the Sony Ericsson logo. Sony Ericsson’s Swedish offices in Lund are reportedly working together with Sony CSL on this project.