Force Touch: Apple’s Secret Weapon

<p style="text-align: justify;">Apple undoubtedly makes brilliant gadgets and it’s all because of the number of innovations that the company incorporates in its devices. With the iPhone 5S, Apple introduced the Touch ID fingerprint scanner, it wasn’t the first handset to do so, but it created a huge buzz and forced manufacturers like Samsung and HTC to follow Apple’s path. This year Apple is relying on a brand new innovation called Force Touch. The Apple Watch was the first device to feature this and the new glass based trackpad on the wafer-thin Macbook also incorporates this feature. &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Apple describes it as the "most significant new sensing capability" butwhat is Force Touch? Well basically it senses how hard the user is pressing down on the trackpadwhich can then be used to show more options to users. The sensors can detect more than one type of tap. A light tap can perform a certain action and a harder tap can perform something else. For instance you could press on the display harder to increase the volume or just forward a video. The Force Touch trackpad on the new Macbook has a customisable feature called Force Touch. This lets you adjust the feature's sensitivity, so that you can finely adjust the pressure required for certain actions. The trackpad also comes with Force Sensors that allow the user to click anywhere instead of relying on just the bottom of trackpad as it was on the previous Macbooks.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">There is also a Taptic Engine, which senses when a user taps on the trackpad and provides a haptic feedback to acknowledge the action. The trackpad doesn’t move and while the Force Touch trackpad sounds like it clicks and feels like it clicks, it doesn't actually click. This feature is also available on the recently announced Apple Watch.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If reports are to be believed, then Apple is already working on incorporating this new feature into the upcoming set of iPhones this year and is also said to bump up the production next month. This would mean that the new iPhones will have a complete overhauling of how users will interact with the handset thanks to the new Force Touch feature.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>