Gadget: iPhone
Location: Korea

Don’t prefer to use your fingers to maneuver your apps around or check your emails? So its seems like some people found a loop-hole to using the iphone without your finger being the pen.

If you didn’t know, the iphone screen and applications can not be opened or maneuvered with a cloth or pen. Thus, this allows you to place the iphone in your pocket, purse and elsewhere without having your butt call someone.  Have another alternative than sausage snacks?

Details:
“Multi-touch has been implemented in several different ways, depending on the size and type of interface. Both touchtables and touch walls project an image through acrylic or glass, and then backlight the image with LED’s. When a finger or an object touches the surface, causing the light to scatter, the reflection is caught with sensors or cameras that send the data to software which dictates response to the touch, depending on the type of reflection measured. Touch surfaces can also be made pressure-sensitive by the addition of a pressure-sensitive coating that flexes differently depending on how firmly it is pressed, altering the reflection.[2] Handheld technologies use a panel that carries an electrical charge. When a finger touches the screen, the touch disrupts the panel’s electrical field. The disruption is registered and sent to the software, which then initiates a response to the gesture.[3]” via Wikipedia

Links:
http://www.clusterflock.org/2010/02/sausage-fingers.html (News/Picture)
http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3gs/high-technology.html (Info/Quote/Picture)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch (Info/Quote)
http://multi-touchscreen.com/iphone.html (Picture)