Gadgetory

hello I'm the Westway for scene editor at Mobile World Congress 2013 checking out one of the more unusual pieces of technology that we found around the show it's a touch screen technology that even works when your hand is hovering above the panel so this panel is made by stmicroelectronics it's called the fingertip and what it is is a touch screen controller so it's the chip that controls a tablet or smartphone to touch screen and it's extremely sensitive ok so here's how it works the tablet itself is monitoring the electric field that its screen gives off and if your finger enters that electric field then the circuit is closed and the touch if you like is registered because the sensitivity is so high it can support multi-touch and it can even support using a pencil while you're wearing one of these massive skiing gloves so that's handy if you want to play Angry Birds in the Arctic so this isn't available in the market yet this is something that the company is going to be trying to sell to manufacturers of smart phones and tablets I personally think it's a great idea it cuts down on the finger prints you get on your screen so fingers crossed we see it in some popular devices soon I'm Luis Rey for CNET's and this is the STMicroelectronics fingertip