Cambridge firm shows haptic display which is speaker too

Redux Labs will demonstrate its haptic touch panel technology in San Jose, California at Display Week, 2015.

Cambridge-based Redux has developed an haptic touch technology which can also provide audio sound without separate speakers.

It will show next week in California a 15-inch demonstrator for its haptic touch technology, called SurfaceSensation, which it hopes will find applications in automotive, computing and consumer markets.

Redux Labs claims its technology uses fewer haptic-touch actuators and is energy-efficient and scalable.

Also the SurfaceSound technology uses the same actuators to provide audio from the display, without micro-speakers and apertures.

The sound is created by inertial audio transducers attached to the glass. The transducers create microscopic bending waves in the surface of the glass.

“New display designs without apertures, bezels and breakage-prone switchgear enable diverse applications in industry, agriculture, healthcare and other markets where robustness, resistance to dust and fluids, and cleanliness are key,” said the company.

Display Week 2015 will take place May 31-June 5 at the San Jose Convention Center, in San Jose, Calif.

 

Richard Wilson

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