mobile haptics receives round of funding
Atrua Tehcnologies are a company that specialize in touch interfaces for mobile. They've recently announced a round of $9m in funding they've received from investors, including funding from Ericsson Venture Parnters.
It will be interesting to see where their latest innovation takes them. Form their press release, they mention mobile biometrics as a potential avenue of research: "Atrua’s focus on developing fingerprint recognition and touch control solutions optimized for mobile handsets continues to pay off".
But will their technology also focus on input and physical feedback? One of the backers is Mosen, who supply keypads and housings to major manufacturers.
Read the Atrua press release