The only issue that might take place, is the absence of a USB socket on the right side of your laptop, since for the USB wire protrudes from the right end of the AirBar. Remember, the AirBar needs no drivers or software, no installation, tuning or tweaking. Then plug it into a free powered USB socket. The manual is very simple: remove the protection film from the magnets at the back of the AirBar and attach it at the bottom of the screen. The solution is as simple as it is elegant.ĪirBar looks like a bar of black matte finished plastic, really, a slim strip magnetically attached at the bottom of a PC’s display, with a USB power cable. Something slim, reliable and with a good grip to stay in place during the work. It takes only a nice housing for the infrared light source to crack the problem. The task is performed by AlwaysOn™ sensors. Neonode did just that. Neonode‘s zForce AIR™ technology is based upon projecting infrared light over the screen. Now, you cannot tear down your MacBook Air to insert these sensors. Infrared sensors allow you to control the system with gestures. When interrupted by an object, let’s say your finger, the sensors bring out the software or function: press the icon, zoom the window and so on. The “web” is formed not by metal wires, but by infrared invisible rays. Besides, from the point of view of engineering, it is easier to recreate in other environments. If your smartphone has such a technology, you can work with your gloves on. More advanced screens though, feature infrared heat sensitive sensors rimming the display. Human flesh can conduct electricity and so can specially designed styluses with conductors in them. There is only one condition in order to get the sensor to work: the user or object must conduct electricity. That is why touch screens are also called sensor screens, because they “sense” the touch. A special detector which is also housed beneath the screen, catches the disturbances and responds to the action: zoom, or swipe, or whatever. When we enter the field with our finger, we disturb it the way a fly disturbs a spider’s web. The touchscreen is literally an electromagnetic field, generated by a metal grid placed beneath the screen. An engineer from the Neonode company stood in for Apple and introduced what they call the AirBar, which will change your MacBook experience forever.

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