Why a sausage can do what your gloves cannot - Charles Wallace and Sajan Saini

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  • Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
  • Dig into the science of touchscreens, and find out the difference between the two most common types: capacitive and resistive.
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    In 2010, South Korea experienced a particularly cold winter. People couldn’t activate their smartphones while wearing gloves, so they began wielding snack sausages- causing one company to see a 40% rise in sausage sales. So, what could sausages do that gloves couldn’t? In other words, how do touchscreens actually work? Charles Wallace and Sajan Saini dig into the science of touchscreens.
    Lesson by Charles Wallace and Sajan Saini, directed by Luis Torres, Mr. Flama.
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  • @spmagic9083
    @spmagic9083 2 года назад +4304

    There are so many impressive technologies we use everyday but don’t know much about.

    • @KaliTakumi
      @KaliTakumi 2 года назад +73

      Gone are the days of dismantling something to see how it works

    • @MarkFilipAnthony
      @MarkFilipAnthony 2 года назад +10

      @@KaliTakumi why? u can still do it

    • @KaliTakumi
      @KaliTakumi 2 года назад +113

      @@MarkFilipAnthony usually you just end up at a circuit board and it's like "welp, I have no clue what this does"

    • @KaliTakumi
      @KaliTakumi 2 года назад +50

      @@Papi_21 I was hoping people wouldn't take my comment too literally lol. I just meant that the layman wouldn't be able to do that anymore.

    • @edwardv365
      @edwardv365 2 года назад +9

      most people these days knows how to use a lot of electronics but they don't exactly know how it works

  • @joyeeta8252
    @joyeeta8252 2 года назад +6111

    The animators of TedEd are rally amazing at their job.

    • @sushantmanandhar1387
      @sushantmanandhar1387 2 года назад +91

      It's not a job, Ted has always used indie animators hence the massive difference in styles from video to video

    • @Yousef-sam
      @Yousef-sam 2 года назад +204

      @@sushantmanandhar1387 It's still a job, though

    • @artiseen
      @artiseen 2 года назад +43

      @@sushantmanandhar1387 bro wdym it’s still a job ?? 🤨

    • @sopapiabruce6429
      @sopapiabruce6429 2 года назад +14

      @@sushantmanandhar1387 do they get paid?

    • @beatjunkybg
      @beatjunkybg 2 года назад +41

      @@sopapiabruce6429 He means they are not permament Ted empoyees or something, but different ones hired for each video

  • @arvlis1469
    @arvlis1469 2 года назад +613

    Wow, I didn't know there were two kinds of touchscreens! Whenever a self-checkout machine, a ticket machine or something wasn't responding I always assumed it was a computing latency issue of devices being old. But it makes sense now that with devices based on the resistive version, I wasn't just imagining that it worked better if I pressed a little harder, it needs to be pressed! Thank you so much for this explaination!

    • @Kaiyats
      @Kaiyats 2 года назад +9

      The more you know

    • @AD_RC
      @AD_RC 2 года назад +28

      You will always get it to work if you press with your fingernail or a stylus. Think of it as a Nintendo DS touchscreen. Actually, it's the same.

    • @azhari7968
      @azhari7968 Год назад +2

      I remember before I got my first smartphone, in late 2000s, sometimes I have to press my phone's screen with my nails if the area that I wanted to touch is small.

    • @Sinsanatis
      @Sinsanatis Год назад +1

      i had a feeling. resistive touch screens a lot of the time u can feel the gap

  • @careless_siren9086
    @careless_siren9086 2 года назад +5200

    The fact that our body's chemistry plays a big role in touchscreen technology is mind-blowing to me.

    • @groundsymphony
      @groundsymphony 2 года назад +418

      The fact that someone even thought about using our body’s chemistry to develop touchscreen is more mind blowing to me

    • @5skdm
      @5skdm 2 года назад +12

      @@groundsymphony yeah same

    • @potatoheaded1648
      @potatoheaded1648 2 года назад +56

      @@groundsymphony most things are discovered by accident maybe this is one of em

    • @TyeArtisik
      @TyeArtisik 2 года назад +2

      Yup

    • @Zak-tk8wv
      @Zak-tk8wv 2 года назад +2

      yes

  • @Sid-mj1qf
    @Sid-mj1qf 2 года назад +1683

    Ted-Ed always answers random questions which sometimes pops up in mind and vanishes in thin air... The usage different types of animation in every videos and unique examples is mind blowing every time...Thank you Ted-Ed, You don't know how much you helped me in understanding this world🙏

    • @headoverheels88
      @headoverheels88 2 года назад +5

      I always assumed water made touchscreens wonky because of how electricity works (Yet another reason for being a heavy sweater while at the gym was annoying...), but I never knew the precise mechanics. So very very cool.

    • @707-y1c
      @707-y1c 2 года назад

      That’s become someone else also had the question in their mind, but just did deeper research

    • @priyanzhu
      @priyanzhu Год назад

      wow

  • @pinkywinky911
    @pinkywinky911 2 года назад +401

    I live in Japan and for 12 years I worked as a quality inspector for Nitto. A manufacturing company that literally makes touch screens for Apple, Samsung , Nintendo and other devices. It’s really fascinating tech and the research that goes into improving it seem to never end.

    • @anonamemous6865
      @anonamemous6865 2 года назад +4

      Cool

    • @Luigi2262_
      @Luigi2262_ 2 года назад +7

      Sounds neat. Curious, is there anything important in touchscreens that Ted-Ed missed?

    • @Lussimio
      @Lussimio 2 года назад +15

      @@Luigi2262_ not specifically touch screen, but most modern smartphones use OLED panels instead of LCD.

    • @pinkywinky911
      @pinkywinky911 2 года назад +19

      @@Luigi2262_ ted ed actually did a terrific job covering this topic. I just like to add that As an inspector we search for dirt, scratches and other defects between the layers of the touch screen and all with just our own eyes, a flash light and a flourescent light. Even with the crazy machines they made to manufacture touch screens, they still can’t duplicate the ability of the human eyes. I know because they tried a lot of times and spent millions of yen making them but were never successful 😁

    • @LordCoeCoe
      @LordCoeCoe 2 года назад +1

      @@Lussimio Currently yes.

  • @surgicalblazer1445
    @surgicalblazer1445 2 года назад +254

    Words are not enough to describe how much I love this channel. Thanks so much for all this great content 🙂

  • @rollintweeds234
    @rollintweeds234 2 года назад +105

    Super-informative and entertaining. From the unexpected South Korean sausage anecdote to engaging imagery of subatomic particles relating to one another, I was learning and loving it. Thank you, TedED!

  • @mbbbits4847
    @mbbbits4847 2 года назад +121

    I clicked on this one too quickly

  • @AkshayKumarX
    @AkshayKumarX 2 года назад +231

    All this beautiful work for a 5 minute educational video, a priceless gift.

  • @Gargantura
    @Gargantura 2 года назад +15

    please give the animator a medal, because its their work's beautiful!

  • @bcataffa6153
    @bcataffa6153 2 года назад +17

    I was just wondering this

  • @soosandras555
    @soosandras555 2 года назад +27

    The first phone with capacitive touch screen was an LG, not the iphone.

  • @umitdemir3741
    @umitdemir3741 2 года назад +25

    This is amazing content! I've never searched how the touchscreens work. but when I watched this video, I just blamed myself and asked myself why didn't I. There is a lot of technologies we use everyday and we are not curious about how they work. Thank you TedEd.

  • @myusanawnghkd
    @myusanawnghkd 2 года назад +64

    You can say that this video was quite touching

  • @minhquyen7757
    @minhquyen7757 2 года назад +4

    omg i've always been questioning about all these technology things. i don't take it for granted. it feels very mind-blowing every time i think about it. like, HOW ??

  • @lthereader5670
    @lthereader5670 2 года назад +77

    what amazes me is the terrifying speed this process is done. your phone has to do the math on the voltages of every single node every moment, and then react to it in milliseconds when there is an anomaly. in a time period we humans would call "instantly"

    • @matthewtorres7781
      @matthewtorres7781 2 года назад +19

      the coding and design does make it a little simpler. think instead of one processor monitoring hundreds of nodes, think of each node as doing one job, with one set parameter. if one node gets a voltage above or below that parameter (depending on if your finger decreases or increases voltage, it didnt say in the vid) then that voltage change is applied to the grid. the processor doesnt have to do the math for voltage on each node, just mainly the math to pinpoint where the electrical impulses are coming from on the grid

  • @djibreezy
    @djibreezy 2 года назад +2

    asking the real questions, thank you.

  • @rickseiden1
    @rickseiden1 2 года назад +11

    I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite. It uses, of course, capacitive touch, but it also has under that some sort of technology from Wacom that allows it to also respond to a stylus. It's like a souped up touch screen.

  • @lesterabastillas9291
    @lesterabastillas9291 2 года назад +4

    I wonder how many of the viewers are watching these for schoolwork or just like knowing random stuff

  • @knightlon
    @knightlon Год назад +17

    iPhone wasn't the first capacitive touchscreeen phone. It was the LG Prada. Apple was the one to go more popular, though.

  • @richardmendy4914
    @richardmendy4914 2 года назад +1

    This channel is more educative than most teachers ngl

  • @shreeyamittal1771
    @shreeyamittal1771 2 года назад +313

    I've really wondered that too, especially since I tried to make a stylus at home and found it wouldn't function without a conducting material. Brilliant video, and thank you so much for such interesting content!

    • @rexthegamergembox
      @rexthegamergembox 2 года назад

      jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj

    • @rizizum
      @rizizum 2 года назад +19

      @Brutality Com You can wrap tin foil around a round point and it will work like a finger

    • @artiseen
      @artiseen 2 года назад +4

      @Brutality Com u can look it up here on yt it’s surprisingly simple

    • @muhammadsajid8608
      @muhammadsajid8608 2 года назад +3

      I have a regular pen with a small rubber tip on top of it’s cap.
      that surprisingly works really well as a stylus.

    • @ChiDestiny
      @ChiDestiny 2 года назад +2

      I used to wrap foil around a q-tip, then put some water on it

  • @masterimbecile
    @masterimbecile 2 года назад +1

    My finger just triggered the nodes overlying the LCD display of a thumbs-up icon.

  • @XD2021
    @XD2021 2 года назад +38

    So basically I've been shocking myself for this whole time 😂😂

    • @pretisia7
      @pretisia7 2 года назад +2

      Yes, sorry😊

    • @DannyCiez1945
      @DannyCiez1945 2 года назад +6

      On safely amount, of course

    • @pretisia7
      @pretisia7 2 года назад +2

      @@DannyCiez1945 right

    • @senzuka_se
      @senzuka_se 2 года назад +5

      yeah, altho milivolts that dont do any damage at all, like AT ALL.

    • @ayounglivelysoulinanoldtir3512
      @ayounglivelysoulinanoldtir3512 2 года назад +1

      the rule with absorbing electricity is that if it dosen't hurt, then it dosen't startle you, so you can't call it a shock!

  • @elkaraokedeltioteodoro9414
    @elkaraokedeltioteodoro9414 2 года назад +3

    Thank you for this video, uncle TED

  • @TommyTao47
    @TommyTao47 2 года назад +1

    The reason I like TED-Ed is its educational animation. Amazing job!

  • @lordkaby9259
    @lordkaby9259 2 года назад +38

    Nice I rly love the animations in this video. And great work getting so much information over in such short time, I was wondering for a while how touchscreens actually work since we didnt learn it explicitly in physic. just noice

  • @AnimatorThe
    @AnimatorThe 2 года назад +4

    First widespread touch screen
    iphone❌ DS✅

  • @kchishol1970
    @kchishol1970 2 года назад +117

    There are also special gloves with special material on the fingertips to allow using touchscreens. Perhaps a sequel video explaining that function is called for.

    • @clayel1
      @clayel1 2 года назад +50

      it likely just conducts electricity like your finger

    • @toddhowardfr
      @toddhowardfr 2 года назад +45

      the video would be 10 seconds long

    • @88marome
      @88marome 2 года назад +6

      They never work for me though🤷‍♀️

    • @DoomFinger511
      @DoomFinger511 2 года назад +5

      the fingertips of those gloves have threads made of conductive metals. There isn't much that is special about them.

    • @eagletgriff
      @eagletgriff 2 года назад +1

      @@toddhowardfr would be a nice short then, tho with how they make their vids, it would be alot of work for a 10s vid lol

  • @chonkcatOwO
    @chonkcatOwO 2 года назад

    Your videos make time on RUclips fun but you're able to learn at the same time!
    An excellent match of cartoons and school
    LOVE IT

  • @Beeeeeeeeee.Z
    @Beeeeeeeeee.Z 2 года назад +77

    TED-Ed is easily one of the best RUclips Channels. Both in terms of creativity and content. As a curious person and creative myself, I am glad that a channel like this exists!

  • @ryemamaril8669
    @ryemamaril8669 2 года назад +83

    Let's appreciate how beautiful the animation is 🥰

    • @SnoopyDoofie
      @SnoopyDoofie 2 года назад +3

      No. Let's stop with the "Let's appreciate the animation" comments that litter the comment section on every video and start commenting on the actual content. Geez, give it up will you.

    • @whycantihaveaproperusernam9384
      @whycantihaveaproperusernam9384 2 года назад

      I agree - it sounds like a bot.

    • @whycantihaveaproperusernam9384
      @whycantihaveaproperusernam9384 2 года назад +1

      But a bit excessive, don't you think? You better be glad this user (me) doesn't turn reply sections into warzones.

    • @andrealombardo5547
      @andrealombardo5547 2 года назад

      @@SnoopyDoofie No, they deserve it

    • @panda4247
      @panda4247 Год назад

      I don't like the animation of electrons as running people. It's bs and useless. I'd rather see some more schematics. For example include the width and distance of the layers. Or where are the horizontal and vertical linea connected to

  • @nrsrymj
    @nrsrymj 2 года назад +15

    Wow can't get closer to "how what you're doing right now works"

  • @lovinanewton7751
    @lovinanewton7751 2 года назад +19

    Thank you TedEd for making learning fun and accessible! I probably would never have delved into functioning of touch screens otherwise. Love how this channel helps keep geeking about random topic relevant!!!
    Also, as it is with every video, love love love the animation, especially the atom and electron characters bit! You people are brilliant 😍🤯🤯

  • @jankelen
    @jankelen 2 года назад +22

    At a cross country meet years ago I made the discovery that bananas can be used on touch screens. Didn’t expect it to be mentioned in this video though!

  • @sleipnir8380
    @sleipnir8380 2 года назад

    i love the design of the atoms and elcetrons. theyre so cute!

  • @ketsuekikumori9145
    @ketsuekikumori9145 2 года назад +8

    Gloves that say they can work with capacitive touch screens just have metallic threads weaved into the finger allowing electric charge to flow between you and the screen. Capacitive stylus work on the same principle with a metallic body connecting you to the stylus tip.

  • @TheAndjelika
    @TheAndjelika 2 года назад +1

    Actually the first mobile phone with capacitive screen was LG Prada in 2006, and Apple, as usually, was promoting something that was already made but someone else.

  • @KnightsofGaming2016
    @KnightsofGaming2016 2 года назад +193

    Can't believe it's been 15 years since Steve Jobs introduced what most of us would use everyday and the many companies that produce it.

    • @manuelg4867
      @manuelg4867 2 года назад +48

      lol he died because he thought eating fruit would be a better treatment to his cancer than getting real medicine.

    • @Riyoshi000
      @Riyoshi000 2 года назад +7

      @@manuelg4867 lmao😂😂😂

    • @jayus2033
      @jayus2033 2 года назад

      @@manuelg4867 no he died because Obama and his democrats killed him

    • @jennyjohn704
      @jennyjohn704 2 года назад +22

      His company 'invented' the iphone, it didn't invent the smart phone.

    • @deadinside7750
      @deadinside7750 2 года назад +17

      also he didn't invent capacitive screens

  • @kaptenkukang
    @kaptenkukang 2 года назад +2

    But, traditional diner stalls in Indonesia already use touchscreens for decades, just touch the screen to whatever you want to eat and your meal will be serve in no time.

    • @azroeok
      @azroeok 2 года назад +1

      Tegal inn (warung Tegal) 😂🤣

  • @houssamk777
    @houssamk777 2 года назад +4

    Amazing animation like always !

  • @dearsal6761
    @dearsal6761 2 года назад

    the animation is amazing ! you also gotta understand the video scientifically to be able to do this great

  • @NathanPatton
    @NathanPatton Год назад +5

    Fun fact: The first phone with a capacitive touch screen to hit the market was the LG Prada in May 2007. The iPhone would go on sale roughly a month later in June.
    Not exactly as memorable of a phone though, to be fair 😄

  • @argentinanaoma1247
    @argentinanaoma1247 2 года назад

    The sound designers of Ted-Ed never cease to amaze!

  • @wandering-riz
    @wandering-riz 2 года назад +22

    Let's just take a minute to appreciate how great the TED-ed Animators have gotten

    • @panda4247
      @panda4247 Год назад +1

      Depends on youdlr definition of "great".
      Electrons animated as running people are useless. I'd rather see more of the schematics

  • @misskathgandaomsim325
    @misskathgandaomsim325 2 года назад

    the animations are so good that I want to watch it again

  • @FinancialShinanigan
    @FinancialShinanigan 2 года назад +12

    Those snack sausages were my childhood lol glad there's more uses for them

  • @studiousguy
    @studiousguy Год назад

    Fascinating how theres swiping too

  • @priyanshubaranwal363
    @priyanshubaranwal363 2 года назад +6

    screens: touch me, we have an electrical connection
    me: how can i resist, when you're capacitive

  • @dilvastak7351
    @dilvastak7351 2 года назад +1

    The capacitive sensor calmly reads the change in the field at a fairly decent distance from the screen without touching, for example, Samsung has a so-called hover sensor for a long time. Moreover, simple phones also manage to read touches with gloves, but only of a small thickness (well, or with conductive threads).

  • @mr.spinoza
    @mr.spinoza 2 года назад +5

    I thought this video was going to be about SawStop. It's the same principle though: sausages and fingers produce current so they stop the saw, whereas plastic won't.

  • @caua1865
    @caua1865 2 года назад

    To give us even more knowledge about our incredible cellphones, please, make a video to explain how a cellphone changes the way it displays its user interface based whether it is horizontally or vertically. Oh, Amazing video of how our touchscreen works, by the way.

  • @ouch1011
    @ouch1011 2 года назад +52

    It’s funny how the T-Mobile/HTC G1, despite being a much better phone and the fact that Android phones outnumber iPhones 2:1, is largely forgotten because it came out very slightly after the iPhone.
    I believe a lot of cat infotainment systems (up until recently) used resistive screens specifically because of gloves.

    • @Br_KN
      @Br_KN 2 года назад

      Cat?

    • @Dumbledore6969x
      @Dumbledore6969x 2 года назад +2

      I owned the G1 and it was NOT a better phone. It was slow, laggy, and android still needed a lot of work. It’s not forgotten, it was wasn’t the breakthrough that Apple had achieved. It would still take some time for google to fully copy apples vision.

    • @BreadsenTM
      @BreadsenTM 2 года назад

      @@Br_KN The Company Caterpillar which offers equipement for construction work, including phones. As a brand they just call themself CAT though.

  • @Ivan-pi6ur
    @Ivan-pi6ur Год назад

    I never questioned it to this point

  • @fastpacedcheese
    @fastpacedcheese Год назад

    there are so many intelligent, inovative and hard working people that've compounded their efforts to offer us the absolute abundant and comfortable lives we have, have a lil grattitude for those you don't know about that've molded your world or better yet learn from em and keep on the never ending rush towards a better world.

  • @HeadCannon19
    @HeadCannon19 Год назад +7

    It's crazy how touchscreens are such an integral part of our life and yet I never actually knew how they worked. Idk if its just me but the fact that they use our body's conductivity is surprising but also makes perfect sense

  • @hannahwatermelon
    @hannahwatermelon 2 года назад +1

    I would love to see a video on those gloves that are supposed to be able to be used with a touch screen. I've always wondered if they add a conductive type of thread, or if the tips of the gloves are just sewed slightly differently to the rest of the glove,

  • @rosemimi3831
    @rosemimi3831 2 года назад +3

    Who else is watching this on a touch screen device? 😆

  • @arturobarrios8327
    @arturobarrios8327 2 года назад +1

    As always, the information is great and interesting, and the animation is beautiful!!! I love Ted Ed

  • @anikamaynard8132
    @anikamaynard8132 2 года назад +7

    I’ve always wanted to know how this worked cause if you really sit and think about it, it’s amazingly kool that people were able to create something like this

  • @xsystem1
    @xsystem1 2 года назад

    so the reason why my local atm touchscreen is not consistent when touched because they are using resistive touchscreen..nice info!

  • @eamonjun
    @eamonjun 2 года назад +5

    What about tempered glass protector? does that create another circuit ontop of the protector or is it electrical proximity that allows the input to function.

    • @23Shadowfox23
      @23Shadowfox23 2 года назад +1

      You are correct with your last guess :)
      The applied screen protector can be seen as a thicker phone glass - on top of the 'grid'. If you change the responsiveness of your touchscreen you it could be that the distance is too high for light touches and it stops working

  • @basegrid461
    @basegrid461 2 года назад

    Finally they covered this topic

  • @S3lvah
    @S3lvah 2 года назад +4

    I'd say the distinction between resistive and capacitive touchscreens is what brought Nokia down and what launched iPhone to the top.
    Nokia (and other manufacturers, for that matter) had touchscreen phones before Apple, but the clumsier resistive-screen kind. The responsiveness of the capacitive screen also encouraged Apple to ditch the manual keyboard and enlarge the screen.

  • @LyNguyen-tj9tc
    @LyNguyen-tj9tc 2 года назад

    so interesting and the images help me to understand what he's saying easily. thanks a lot

  • @maindepth8830
    @maindepth8830 2 года назад +15

    This made me feel very self concious of using my phone, thank you

  • @rakvernan3512
    @rakvernan3512 2 года назад +1

    Because of cold weather in South Korea Ted Ed could made this video how sad 😂❤️

  • @Arib_Malik_
    @Arib_Malik_ 2 года назад +5

    Ayo I didn't know this, very informative video and definitely learnt something new. 📚

  • @Avatarmariz
    @Avatarmariz 2 года назад

    I love this, the information and the video is just amazing, such a cool animation

  • @sep2474
    @sep2474 2 года назад +3

    They were still using the sausage while wearing gloves, where did the sausage get it's charge?

  • @emcdavee
    @emcdavee 2 года назад

    I found if you use a glove long enough, it eventually becomes conductive. Either more holes are formed, or you sweat leaks into the tips (or both).

  • @russiandollie
    @russiandollie 2 года назад +5

    Not only the technology has come so far, I love how awesome Ted Ed videos have become. Absolutely digging this one. And I always wondered about the touchscreen so thanks for such a cool vid.👍🏻

  • @MorkSD
    @MorkSD 2 года назад

    You had me at the Terry Pratchett quote ❤😍

  • @dhirendrakumar276
    @dhirendrakumar276 2 года назад

    Impressive Tech as well as the Video.

  • @AaaaaaaAaaooo
    @AaaaaaaAaaooo 2 года назад +4

    I have always wondered how cell phones work, and this is one step closer to understanding it. I am also curious about how the colors on the screen and images work. How do they change color? How do they know when to change images? If you could make a video about how it works, that would be awesome! (By the way I love your videos! They are so easy to understand! Keep up the amazing work!)

  • @lacklechris
    @lacklechris 2 года назад

    This animation was dope!

  • @luuchoo93
    @luuchoo93 Год назад +3

    Am I the only one who’s blown away at this fact? Our body’s electricity has a role in the way touchscreens work. It’s impressive

  • @jaypudico5236
    @jaypudico5236 2 года назад

    thanks for the new knowledge

  • @overcookedwater1947
    @overcookedwater1947 2 года назад +4

    Thank you! Now I'm even more scared of dropping my phone

  • @enchanted_swiftie
    @enchanted_swiftie 2 года назад

    In between all the transparent layer stuff, when we start adding the fingerprint scanner and that's even transparent!!!
    😮 that's magic!

  • @tango_mondo5751
    @tango_mondo5751 2 года назад +3

    now i wont forget the fact that every time im holding and using a modern touch-screen device im also being electrocuted, just enough to use the device but not enough for it to be even noticeable. thanks ted ed

  • @greekfreak384
    @greekfreak384 Год назад +1

    The banana peel really does work lol

  • @braedenlarson9122
    @braedenlarson9122 2 года назад +12

    I’m an electrical engineering student and I just learned about this in linear circuits 2! Awesome video!

  • @grafito4438
    @grafito4438 Год назад

    Conductive or resistive, it still doesn't explain my phone screen being "swiped' upward,, suddenly stop moving, then the phone dial pad being brought up to view, then the numbers being pushed, then the screen going back to home again. All, by, it self.
    Without anything near the phone to even look like it was touching it. That, was a ghost. It never happened again to my phone after leaving that hotel room.

  • @yetkili146
    @yetkili146 Год назад +3

    Fun fact
    The iPhone wasn’t the first touch screen phone.

  • @TheBlasiangrrl
    @TheBlasiangrrl 2 года назад

    Tbh I didn't expect this to be about touchscreens

  • @denniscamacho9259
    @denniscamacho9259 2 года назад +2

    I'm really amazed how Ted-Ed do their content very informative and making the topic a lot easier to understand.

  • @Mr.Hellboi
    @Mr.Hellboi 2 года назад

    nitril and latex gloves seem to work fine sometimes even while wet

  • @leenagoyal2403
    @leenagoyal2403 2 года назад +9

    Ted Ed never fails to bring the most intriguing topics I never knew I wanted to know more about!

  • @Sweetrose-7
    @Sweetrose-7 2 года назад

    I just love this channel ❤️🌼

  • @AntTonyLOLKID
    @AntTonyLOLKID 2 года назад +14

    I'm still amazed at how Apple pushed forward with such a seamless touchscreen when I remember as touch screens beforehand often needed you to push really hard in because of a thick protective plastic layer.

    • @TheAndjelika
      @TheAndjelika 2 года назад +1

      It was not Apple, it was LG Prada in 2006, year before Apple.

    • @AntTonyLOLKID
      @AntTonyLOLKID 2 года назад

      @@TheAndjelika i mean, I did suspect another company would have invented/innovated that touchscreen, but with the iPhone's launch, Apple had pushed forward that tech

    • @TheAndjelika
      @TheAndjelika 2 года назад

      ​@@AntTonyLOLKID Apple is just a money-making machine, not anything super tech, intuitive, special. Really just some good salesman managed to wrap up things to brainwash people to buy (: If you are a real tech person, codder, any sort of enthusiast, but also the simple user who wants a good thing, you will never get Apple - ultra closed money making systems.

    • @AntTonyLOLKID
      @AntTonyLOLKID 2 года назад

      @@TheAndjelika I am using a Samsung Galaxy at the moment, and Custom PC. I liked Apple when Steve Jobs was still alive, and Apple genuinely pushed technology forward (the iPhone pushed forward smartphones as a norm). I totally agree Apple now is a cash grabbing machine now, but I am happy to use Apple products, but won't be purchasing any unless it fits my needs and wont be spending time with the "Genius" Bar staff, so dnt judge a book by its cover.

  • @excellenceinanimation960
    @excellenceinanimation960 2 года назад

    Incredible!

  • @noahmantoine
    @noahmantoine 2 года назад +6

    Fantastic animation as usual. Loved the little electron and proton guys.

  • @ajsimpson6038
    @ajsimpson6038 2 года назад +2

    This is actually really creative looking back just magine thinking about that. That is just crazy

  • @Optimusprime809
    @Optimusprime809 2 года назад +4

    I often wonder what it would be like if we were sent back in time with some advanced technology, like a smartphone, and people in the past would ask us how it works, only for us to tell them we have no clue, and then they judge us super hard 😂 It's good to learn about the things we use so often!

    • @intj_gaming
      @intj_gaming 2 года назад

      Ask them how their Nintendo works 😂

    • @abhay4147
      @abhay4147 Год назад +1

      People in the past would be less surprised with technology than they would be with supermarkets

  • @SeoWoojin55
    @SeoWoojin55 Год назад

    the first capacitive touch screen phone was an LG phone, not the first iPhone. In fact, up until the iPhone 8 and XR, and 11 series, Apple bought their LCD screens from LG. The rest of the OLEDs now, including what most Samsung Galaxies and Apple iPhones use is made by Samsung or is made using Samsung licensed OLED tech with LG coming in 2nd largest in the OLED market

  • @RyanCoomer
    @RyanCoomer 2 года назад +3

    Im a beekeeper in minnosota. I trap 7 Monarch Butterflies in a jar. I then place jar in the middle of the Beehive. It then is a joy for me to watch the bees frenzied Sting the Butterflies til they Disintegrate. IT creates some of the best tasting Honey I have ever produced!!!

  • @ashirasingal27
    @ashirasingal27 2 года назад +1

    plz bring back your myths and history related videos, its been so long since yall have posted vids like that

  • @critorispemar6704
    @critorispemar6704 2 года назад

    I've always wondered how touch screen works