This California Startup May Just Have Spelt The Death Of All Mechanical Buttons

With so many devices around with touch sensors, the time of mechanical buttons coming to an end is inevitable. Now a San-Jose California based startup UltraSense has come up with a new technology that uses ultrasound sensors to enable multi-functional touch interface plans. Interestingly, these ultrasound sensors can be used to sense movements and gestures on any material of any thickness — be glass, plastic, metal or even wood. The 2-year old startup introduced its new system-on-chips product family called TouchPoint, which uses the Ultrasound sensors technology. Released earlier this week, the company said that they had released a chip which has a size of about a ballpoint head of a pen which can be tapped and used for functions like volume control, which will replace the need of vo