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pUnsurprisingly, the capacitive-touch interface will be jumping, like a virus, from computing devices to home appliances. To that end Samsung has teamed up with California-based A HREF=”http://www.synaptics.com/” Synaptics/A to incorporate the latter company’s capacitive touch controls into the former company’s new Hauzen Zero air conditioner. /p

pIf you’ve never heard of Synaptics before, here’s a look at some of their touch interfaces, demo’d here on a cell phone:/p

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