The touchscreen tablet with a pop-up keyboard

A new company tries to give tablet users the best of both worlds by combining the ease of swipes and gestures with physical keys that "magically" appear

Tactus' tablet prototype
(Image credit: Tactus)

Typing on a touchscreen tablet or phone can be frustrating for those who miss the sensation of pressing an actual key. A new prototype from Tactus Technology, a hardware company based in Fremont, Calif., offers a novel solution to the problem: Bubble-like keys that "rise" out of the flat touchscreen, then disappear when you're done typing. "You could text on a tactile keyboard, and then go right back to swiping through your Twitter feed," says Rebecca J. Rosen at The Atlantic. Here's how it works:

How do the keys appear?

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