Capacitive touch buttons are a great way to turn just about any (non-conductive) surface into a button, but people generally dislike the lack of tactile feedback. [KontinuumLab] apparently agreed and ...

Several months after VW was sued in the United States over claims the capacitive steering wheel buttons of the ID. 4 pose a safety risk, the company has filed a motion to dismiss. A case like this can ...

There were some good things about the design of the capacitive buttons, such as the "slide" left or right to quickly adjust volume, but the implementation was infuriating. Click to expand... Oh god ...

The IC can also be configured using one channel as a proximity sensor, enabling 'hidden-until-lit' user interfaces where the device detects the presence of a finger some distance away from the keypad.