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raisedbyninjas on March 31, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen...

If people routinely wore capacitive clothing, the screen could determine which seat the finger's owner was sitting in.

kowbell on March 31, 2020 [–]

I know this is comment in jest, but could you actually identify who touched a screen? Do people have different physical characteristics that would give them a detectable capacitive "fingerprint?"

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