Android-powered LG Nexus featuring The Dimple.IO device (via Dimple.IO)
If your generation was known for ski goggles and track suits, you’re also probably very well acquainted with cell phones that feature physical buttons. You were probably that cool kid that could dial a phone number without looking, because your sense of touch told you which buttons was which. Physical buttons seem like a thing of the past, but not all trends die so young. For all your 90s fanatics, meet The Dimple – bringing back physical buttons for your high-tech phone.
The Dimple is a fancy sticker – a really fancy sticker. Emulating the shape and size of a small bandage, it sticks to any Android device and features four buttons that are entirely programmable by the user.
The promising device is fully powered by near-field communication, meaning it is powered by the energy field your device automatically creates just by being on. It can also endure up to 2 million clicks and 100,000 changes in programming. Boys, this is about to get good.
The Dimple can function with any non-metal, NFC-capable Android phone or device. Users customize the product by using The Dimple.IO app. When you press a button on The Dimple device, it sends an NFC command to the app, which executes whichever command you programmed into that particular button, which can include launching the camera, flashlight, email, music player, home screen and more.
If you’re a developer, don’t worry. Dimple.IO will launch with both an open plugin SDK and Tasker integration to allow for unlimited customization. With this, developers can also program The Dimple to support their specific app inventions.
The Dimple.IO device color assortment (Dimple.IO)
The device comes in white, purple and gray and the company has already manufactured 250 prototypes. The Dimple launched an Indiegogo campaign May 6, where early birds can snag their makeshift cellular buttons for $15. If the campaign is successful, the product is expected to go on sale for $29 in August.
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