The Physics of Your Smartphone Screen

Old screens used pressure to contact two surfaces, but modern touch screens use capacitance. Your skin is not only a mild conductor, but it has a mild static charge. The same is true of many other materials such as certain latex formulas in gloves, or the tip on your stylus.

Bullshit. Use a rubber glove and it works. It’s not electricity. It’s texture.

Phone screens beat every AI chatbot at fooling smart people

I hate these AI generated slop vids, stop wasting my time

So, everybody, as you can see from the science is that you're basically becoming more powerful with each use of your phone. We must be careful though for the day when the super evil guy decides to just hold his finger on his phone to get all the power.

What if you use wet gloves 😂

This actually super funny because I tried to use a pen on my phone last night to see if would work in editing. It’s like the algorithms are reading my mind and wanted me to see this lol

Fun fact, you never really touch the screen. Actually, you have never touched anything in your entire life.😵‍💫

@JesslovesMJK And Apple has a lot to do to get it working properly. My 17 is incredibly frustrating. And it’s gotten worse over time.

The science behind this is so advanced it feels like magic

Rain water is not conductive

Your smartphone screen is basically physics doing magic. We carry some seriously wild technology in our pockets.

The only thing I can say engineers are gods.

Bro the illustration is too satisfying and accurate

This is actually insane when you think about it. Your finger literally changes the electric field on the screen and the phone calculates the exact spot in a split second. No wonder it still works with wet hands. Tech is lowkey magic

we went from “my screen feels smooth” to a whole physics documentary about it 🔥

Complete vid in bio 👇

Fun fact, I use a potato to auto-click on video games sometimes :)

The summary in short: Allah SWT is the best of creators

Your smartphone screen is a tiny physics marvel! 📱⚡ From capacitive touch sensing to millions of pixels producing light and color, advanced physics makes every swipe, tap, and scroll possible. Science in the palm of your hand! 🔬✨

humans are really smart

finally someone talking about how they

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This is definitely enlightening!

Wait, my phone screen is zapping me as I type this?!

my Tamagotchi needed more feeding than this phone does, and that thing had the decency to die when I ignored it

the glove debate in the replies is so funny cause like capacitive touch is literally just the answer to all of it

Type of shit you do NOT learn in school

Its capaicitance bellend

But when you use a piece of wire (thin wire though) on your phone screen, nothing happens, why? @grok explain that

So how can a tortilla do the same thing 😭