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Tactus has released a new video showing off its morphing touchscreen technology and we're giddy with excitement at what our eyes have seen.

A couple of years back, we were wowed at CES by a tablet touchscreen that subtly morphed to raise up keyboard ridges to help your typing. Tactus’ demo back then showed a built-in version of the tech on certain devices, but it’s finally coming to market as a case that’ll work with your iPad mini.

Dubbed Phorm, the case fills the little raised bubbles with oil when you flip the switch, creating bumps that help guide your fingers while typing. Move the switch back and they disappear seamlessly. Will it really work as well as seen in the video above? We’re anxious to find out. You can pre-order now for US$99 (about £64) and get it this summer.

 

Resembling a normal touchscreen at first glance, Tactus' touchscreen tech enables honest-to-goodness buttons to raise up from a seemingly normal flat smartphone screen, allowing for improved typing, number dialling and gaming interaction.

Shapes and layouts can be adjusted as necessary and once you're done tapping away, the buttons magically recede into the screen as if they were never there.

So how does it work? Well, we've glanced through Tactus' paper and from what we can gather the screen has micro channels beneath the top polymer screen layer, which are filled with a clear fluid.

When the fluid pressure increases, the fluid pushes up through holes against the top screen layer, causing it to expand and 'bubble up', forming a physical key for you to press.

It's an ingenious solution to improving the accuracy and naturalness of touchscreen typing and could revolutionise the entire smartphone, tablet and portable computing industry.

But enough fancy talk, check out the video below to see it for your own eyes while we work on getting a hands-on with the magical tech right here at CES in Vegas.

      
UPDATE: Stuff can confirm that Tactus' incredible touchscreen tech isn't some video trickery
as we've just had a play on a raised touchscreen keyboard on its demo tablet.

The surface of the tablet doesn't feel as silky smooth as we're used to with other slates when the buttons weren't activated but it's more than usable for swiping around the screen. You can see a faint outline of each key but not enough to distract you too much.

 Double tap within a notes app though and a full QWERTY keyboard will appear in a kind of bubble form over the lower third of the screen – you can firmly press each 'key' and though it takes a little getting used to, we're sure typing will be much more accurate with Tactus baked in than without. Double tap anywhere else on the screen when you're done and the keys disappear.

As we mentioned above, you could have different configurations of buttons such as a numberpad or – we hope – a d-pad for gaming so long as the buttons don't overlap. We'd like the idea of a keyboard on one third of a tab in portrait and gaming controls on the opposite end.