We have created a technology that enables the creation of Inexpensive Multi-Touch Pressure Acquisition Devices (IMPAD) which are paper-thin, flexible and can easily scale down to fit on a portable device or scale up to cover an entire table. These devices can sense varying levels of pressure at a resolution high enough to sense and distinguish multiple fingertips, the tip of a pen or pencil and other objects.

The UnMousePad is our first embodiment of this technology. We have developed several form factors for it: rectangular sensors of various sizes, transparent sensors, and circular sensors of varying diameters.

Potential applications include writing pads, virtual keyboards, virtual drums, sculpting applications, various musical instruments, voice synthesizers, water ripple simulations, virtual and physical puppet control, reconfigurable control panels, portable electronic devices, hospital, sports equipment, sports clothing, braille typewriter and more.