KBK update for Sunday, 29th August

Around the turn of the 1980s, Touch Activated Switch Arrays, Inc., known as TASA, introduced a number of seemingly revolutionary input devices:

The Ferenstat™, a fader with no moving parts
Fully capacitively-sensed flat-surface keyboards with no moving parts
Touchpads

Wikipedia’s touchpad article makes no mention of TASA, nor is there any mention of the Ferenstat. The idea of a totally motioness and unyielding keyboard never took hold either, with desktop and notebook keyboards continuing to use moving keys for another forty years on. However, typing on glass is now part of most people’s lives, just on mobile phones rather than their laptop computers.

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