{"id":26070,"date":"2016-05-26T14:31:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T21:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/force-feeling-phone-software-lets-mobile-devices-sense-pressure"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:13:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:13:48","slug":"force-feeling-phone-software-lets-mobile-devices-sense-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/force-feeling-phone-software-lets-mobile-devices-sense-pressure","title":{"rendered":"Force-feeling phone: Software lets mobile devices sense pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/force-feeling-phone-software-lets-mobile-devices-sense-pressure.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Temporary concept; however, those first alerts (aka help me; I fallen and can\u2019t get up) already covers this plus with the direction we\u2019re going with BMI in the next 5 years this will not be needed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What if you could dial 911 by squeezing your smartphone in a certain pattern in your palm? A different pattern might turn the music on or flip a page on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>New software developed by University of Michigan engineers and inspired, in part, by a Batman movie, could give any smartphone the capacity to sense force or pressure on its screen or body. ForcePhone offers new ways for people to command their mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>The software could also enable users to push a bit harder on a screen button to unlock a menu of additional options, similar to right-clicking with a mouse. The developers envision these and many other uses for their technology, which could offer the masses a coveted feature of the latest generation of smartphones.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-05-force-feeling-software-mobile-devices-pressure.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;05-force-feeling-software-mobi...ssure.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temporary concept; however, those first alerts (aka help me; I fallen and can\u2019t get up) already covers this plus with the direction we\u2019re going with BMI in the next 5 years this will not be needed. What if you could dial 911 by squeezing your smartphone in a certain pattern in your palm? A different [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56492,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26070\/revisions\/56492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}