Objects today, especially those with high tech content, are experienced increasingly by touch and often with a simple brush of the finger. The term \u2018touch design\u2019 aptly describes many of today\u2019s interfaces between user and object.<\/p>\n
Sophisticated touch control technology has been used to give the simple act of turning a device on and off a whole new feel, replacing, for instance, conventional light switches and dimmers. Gone is the old click of a switch, and some of today\u2019s latest table and room lights are operated and regulated by simply brushing the fingertips against an interface.<\/p>\n
Pioneers in this new technology are Luceplan designers such as Alberto Meda, who has been experimenting for years with lamps in which the switch is no longer fixed to a wire and are controlled rather by interacting with the object itself (such as the On Off lamp from 1988, which the user simply moved to switch on and off).<\/p>\n
This research progressed to produce the wand-shaped sensor dimmer on the Costanza light by Paolo Rizzatto and Ross Lovegrove\u2019s Agaricon light, where a ring on the body of the lamp acts as a touch operated interface.<\/p>\n
These solutions have since been adopted in other products, and the manufacturer Elica, for example, began using a similar patented system called Magic Wand on a number of its kitchen hoods a few years ago.<\/p>\n
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