Re:Surface Music Kit features
by anonymfus on Sunday December 29, 2013 @12:04PM
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Capacitive touch screens are incapable of measuring pressure applied to buttons. This thing allows user to press buttons with different force to produce sounds of different volume.
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False. Capacitive touch screens can measure finger pressure based on the size of the contact patch between the finger and the screen. They can also measure impact of the finger against the screen via the accelerometer.