There are a few ways to add some spring to buttons and switches like these, including compliant mechanisms in the (3D-printed) plastic structure, but this isn’t always an option in a project.

They can be paired with an equally thin liquid reservoir beneath them, and a flexible surface structure on top, to almost instantaneously create pop-up buttons (the process takes about a second ...

Most of the appliances in my kitchen have touch-sensitive buttons. None of them work reliably, and it's not only that they don't detect my fingers if they're wet (or at all).

Apple has been researching how to make even the light seal on an Apple Vision Pro become a touch-sensitive control surface.

As a result, “touch screen” is a misnomer, says Rachel Plotnick, associate professor of cinema and media studies at Indiana University Bloomington, and author of the 2018 book “Power Button ...

I like to think that we, collectively as a people, knew the Touch Bar was done when it never found its way into any other Mac. There was no full-size keyboard with an OLED strip of contextual buttons.

This report should be treated with a healthy dose of skepticism as it’s the first time we’ve heard the iPad 10 could feature Touch ID in the power button.