“Up to this point, we've only been able to tap with our fingertips, but FingerSense recognizes input from other parts of the finger, allowing for a greater variety of touch responses.”

“Think of it as a mouse's 'right click' option for your smart phone, only using your knuckle instead.”

“We got used to using our fingertips to navigate their touch screens with pokes, taps, swipes, and two-finger pinches. There’s more to our fingers than just the tips, though, and a startup called Qeexo aims to take advantage of this with technology that can differentiate between fingertips, nails, and knuckles.”

“If this takes off, it could increase the library of standard touchscreen gestures practically by an order of magnitude.”

“While the humble touchscreen has become the standard interface for most smartphones, the folks at start-up Qeexo think things could still be improved. It's developed a technology called FingerSense that could add even more functionality.”

“For all the swiping, flicking, pinching and zooming, our interactions with touchscreens are still pretty limited. That could be about to change.”

“...a feature that you probably didn’t know you wanted but now, that you think about it, sounds pretty cool.”

“You can use just about any portion of your hand to initiate and control commands.”

“With this software add on a typical smart phone, the touch screen could tell if it’s a finger touch, or knuckle touch, or a stylus touch.”

“This tiny startup has developed a new technology that can detect the difference between a fingertip, a knuckle, a fingernail, and a stylus.”

“The touch-based user interface is still modeled after the same tapping, swiping, pinching and rotating gestures we have all grown accustomed to. Don’t you feel this is limiting? Could we do more with our smartphone screens than just type and swipe to interact with on-screen elements?”

"Qeexo allows different results from each interaction...How awesome is that? And to think that there's no special hardware required to tell the difference between 3 different parts of your finger and 2 different areas of a pen!"

"By measuring a finger’s angle relative to the screen’s surface, the phone is able to register the x- and y-rotation of a touch. This opens a whole new dimension for touchscreens, and creates a richer vocabulary of interactions we can use on our ever-shrinking screens."

"Qeexo is a company that seems obsessed with making our interaction with our devices more intuitive and intelligent. In this demonstration, they present technology that allows an Android device’s screen to determine the yaw and pitch of the finger touching it in three dimensions. Actual 3D touch. It’s pretty incredible stuff."

"What’s most impressive about this touchscreen that knows the exact angle of the finger touching it is that it’s the same display hardware found in every smartphone on the market right now."

"It’s called FingerAngle, and it can detect not only the angle of your finger, it can also detect rotations. This can be more powerful than 3D Touch in that more gestures can be created by the movement of just one finger, whereas 3D Touch is limited to how soft or hard the user is pressing."

"It was a super slick demo that made me grin, just like all the best tech innovations should."

"No extra hardware needed for these more intuitive multitouch gestures."

"With TouchTools, users can access virtual tools with a gesture, including a tape measure, ruler, magnifying glass, camera, pen, and eraser."

"Multitouch smartphones have been around for 10 years. Shouldn’t we be able to do more than just touch the screen with one or two fingers?"

"While digital assistants with machine learning capabilities are changing the way we vocally interact with our smartphones, software company Qeexo is aiming to revolutionize the tangible side of things by making touch screens more – well – touch-friendly."

Strategy Analytics met with Qeexo at Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona. Qeexo develop user interaction technology for smart devices such as large format touch screens and smartphone.

Qeexo, a developer of user interaction solutions for touch-enabled devices, announced the debut of EarSense, a software-only alternative to the standard proximity sensor. The proprietary solution reportedly allows mobile devices to recognize contact with the face and ears, rejecting unwanted touches during phone calls.