The Force Touch could reach the keyboard keys on future MacBooks

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Apple wants technology Force Touch keep evolving and proof of this is that it does not stop filing patents explaining how to use it in certain products. In a previous article we told you about the patent filed by the Cupertino in reference to that the Force Touch could be implemented on the surface of the Magic Mouse. 

As you may already know, we currently have the Magic Mouse 2 on the market, a Magic Mouse that was launched with the arrival of the new 21,5-inch iMac Retina and that its only innovation was to have internal batteries that are recharged through a certain lightning like that of the iDevices.

Currently the Force Touch is present in the Trackpads of MacBook laptops, in the Magic Trackpad 2 and in the screens of the Apple Watch or the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. However, Apple does not cease its insistence and the patent we are talking about indicates how Force Touch technology could be included in the keyboard of future MacBooks.

It talks about how this technology could be implemented in laptops so that we have a pressure sensitive touch keyboard. It is not the first time that Apple patents ideas in relation to touch keyboards, not implementing them today in any of its laptops. 

The patent explains that being a pressure sensitive and tactile surface it could generate a different keyboard depending on the application we are using. A thing similar to what we can find on an iPad when it shows a different keyboard depending on the application that we have open. In addition, that touch surface would be innovative and it would be micro-perforated to be able to illuminate it from below and thus not having to use a backlit panel as in the classic LED screens that you now mount on all your devices. 

We will see if finally in a few years this technology reaches the MacBook in the form of a keyboard or not. What is clear is that the current butterfly system that appeared with the 12-inch MacBook will have to be exploited a bit before the inclusion of the Force Touch in them. 


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