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Motorola invests in Sensitive Object touchscreen technology

December 3, 2009

Motorola Inc. has announced that Motorola Ventures, the company's strategic venture capital arm, made an investment in Sensitive Object, a leader in multitouch anywhere platforms and natural user interface (NUI).

Sensitive Object was created in October 2003 with an innovative and patent-protected technology capable of "tactilizing" any surface. This software technology leverages acoustics to analyze sound waves departing from the point of a touch to precisely and cost-effectively transform any product into a touch device. Sensitive Object's ReverSys software can be deployed in any product benefiting from "touch-based" user interfaces, including touchscreens and touch control in various markets such as mobile devices.

Sensitive Object's Anywhere MultiTouch platform extends tactilization to any surface of a device allowing for virtual controls and next-generation user interfaces. As touch and haptics have become standard interaction expectations for personal computing and handheld devices, Sensitive Object demonstrates that acoustic (vs. resistive, capacitive, and optical) tactilization is the state of the art in terms of both performance and cost, and its platform will set a new standard for full 3D device tactilization.