Onyx from Synaptics

His touch interface was designed to show what can a phone do through only one touch, as well as to illustrate how different applications can work simultaneously.

Concepts

Synaptics solutions are out in the world, providing exceptional human interfaces to a wide range of market-leading PCs, peripherals, mobile phones, and handheld devices. But we’re also thinking ahead—way ahead—and exploring the technologies that will continue to revolutionize the human interface.
At Synaptics, we take great pride in the fact that our technology and innovative solutions have become part of the everyday user experience—and part of daily life. And we look forward to continually advancing the human interface with new capabilities, intuitive features, and much more.
Here you can see just a few of the human interface concepts that Synaptics researchers and thought leaders envision for the future.

Boomerang Remote – Control for the Digital Home

Designed as a command control center for all home digital entertainment, Boomerang demonstrates the functionality and industrial design possibilities of Synaptics’ core capacitive sensing technology. The concepts integrated into Boomerang are available to OEM’s interested in converging home and entertainment controls with an intuitive easy-to-use remote that features the benefits of incorporating capacitive buttons, scrolling, cursor navigation and advanced gestures, while also enabling unique and appealing industrial design without the clutter of mechanical buttons and keys. Read more.

Onyx Concept – ClearPad for Mobile

Synaptics, in partnership with industrial design studio Pilotfish, collaborated in the design of the next-generation phone concept, Onyx. Enabled through Synaptics clear, capacitive sensing technology, Onyx illustrates the future of mobile communications by combining an intelligent and adaptive user interface with sleek industrial design and next-generation user interaction design. The Onyx concept acts as a remote for your life. And because life is activity based, not application based, the concept illustrates how applications such as phone, GPS, music, teleconference and calendar events can work simultaneously. The Onyx concept does not base its experience on treating applications as separate windows or entities that work in isolation. Rather, the Onyx concept seamlessly integrates functions into activity based experiences. Read more.

Fuse™ Concept – Mobile Interaction Beyond the Touchscreen

Synaptics collaborates with leading handset ecosystem partners Texas Instruments, Immersion, TheAlloy, and The Astonishing Tribe to drive the future of mobile interaction beyond the touchscreen. Fuse integrates multiple interface technologies—including multi-touch capacitive sensing, haptic feedback, 3-D graphics, and force, grip, and proximity sensing—the Fuse concept phone showcases exciting new mobile device usage models that Improve usability for single-handed usage and no-look operation on touchscreen handsets. In addition, Fuse demonstrates to device manufacturers the value of ecosystem collaborations providing a model for designing multi-modal interfaces that will optimize the user experience on next-generation handheld device. Read and view more.