Tactus' Phorm Case Pops A Physical Keyboard On Your iPad Screen When You Need It

Most of us love touchscreen phones and are hooked on to it. Though most of us are used to scrolling through the apps and other data on our phone, typing on a touchscreen has been difficult to learn as compared to a physical keypad. Even if that's the case, you would agree when we say that the problem associated with typing is too small a price to pay for the other perks of having a touchscreen phone. Well, an iPad-case company named 'Tactus Technology' has come up with a product using which you won’t even have to pay that small price.

#-Link-Snipped-# has developed an iPad mini case named Phorm. A quick look at Phorm will make you think that it isn’t anything you haven’t seen before. But if you look closely, then there is a middle panel of the case which you cannot call conventional. Here's the beauty of it. The panel contains a number of channels which contain within them a non-flammable and non-toxic liquid. This liquid is the beauty of the product. Using a special technology called microfluidics the liquid bubbles into the buttons of your touch screen keyboard which pop out of the screen. These popped out buttons give you the feel that you are using an actual keyboard as opposed to a touchscreen one.


As shown in the image above, the cover contains a button which when slid to one side will allow the virtual keyboard buttons to pop up. If you no longer wish to have them, slide the button on the cover to the other side and they will disappear as if they were never there. Not only can the device solve the problem of the slipping fingers, but researchers have said that they are beneficial for e-learning as well. Generally, whenever we see where a key is, we have to sync our brains and fingers to go to that place in order to use the key present on a flat surface. This process is known as mapping. But adding a third dimension to the key, will help the brain perform the process of mapping faster and the person can focus on what they are typing rather than thinking about where a key is placed.


Tactus said that currently they have developed a case only for iPad mini, but their future endeavours for the month of August include cases for iPhone 6 plus, iPad Air and then iPad 6. They also said that they will make cases for Android products sometime next year but they didn’t mention which Android devices specifically. The preorders for the device has already began in US at discounted price of $99. The regular price of the product is $149 and it will start shipping this summer.

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