The larger keys greatly improve finger contact range, which reduces stress on fingers and wrists to provide a more comfortable typing experience.

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This microscopic scale and sensitivity allows the sensor to map a high-resolution image of electrical charge that occurs over the surface of a source material (for example a human finger), when it makes contact with a thin insulating surface (ie a plastic surface).

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FedEx equips package sorters with scanners built into a ring on their finger, which communicate wirelessly with a computer on their waist, itself in contact with a central computer, keeping tracking information up-to-the-minute accurate.

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As Elgar's Nimrod was played by the military band and wreathes were being laid, I felt a finger lifting the headphones off my ears and heard my radio engineer whisper that I was to contact the newsroom urgently.

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The contact in a good handshake should be the web of skin between the thumb and index finger.

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