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How do touchscreens detect user input?
How do touchscreens detect user input?
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When your finger touches the screen, some of the small electrical charge flows on to it. Don’t worry – the voltages and amounts of electric charge are far too small to give you a shock.
Sensitive detectors round the edge of the screen can detect which point on the screen has lost charge so that it knows which point has been touched.