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WesleyJohnson
on March 2, 2011
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Live from Apple's iPad 2 event
They're saying it uses the accelerometer in the device itself to detect how hard you touch the screen?
tesseract
on March 2, 2011
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The screen is rigidly attached to the rest of the device, so yes, it should be possible to use the accelerometer (F=ma) to measure a force applied to the screen.
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