How do touchscreens work?
How does a touchscreen work? Why can you text with your finger, but not with a q-tip? The physics of smartphones is a complicated and amazing mixture of engineering, physics, electronics and computer science. Topics:
Capacitive touch screen
Binary language
Unicode
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