Peratech has announced that its Quantum Tunnelling Composite (QTC) pressure-sensitive sensors have been incorporated into Flitchio, a smartphone case with built-in game controller. QTC is a screen printable polymer which changes its electrical resistance with applied force.
Instead of having control interfaces on the screen that obscure the screen area used for gaming, Flitchio has two shoulder buttons and two ultrathin joysticks on the back surface of the case.
Dr. Amir Shadmand, ceo and co-founder of SUPENTA, makers of Flitchio, said: "Peratech enabled us to solve our challenges of making the joysticks sensitive, accurate and thin so that they fitted into a normal thickness smartphone case."
Flitchio snaps onto the phone and links by near field communication so that it can be used to play dozens of games, to pilot drones, to be a remote for Smart TVs, and to develop games and apps using a software development kit.
"QTC technology has been used to provide touch sensitivity for mobile phones before but this is the first time that someone has created a QTC-based product that uses the back of a device," Jon Stark, Peratech's ceo, said. "It's a perfect example of QTC technology enabling user experience innovations."
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Tom Austin-Morgan
Source: www.newelectronics.co.uk