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One Stop Capacitive Touch Interface Design Service

Cape Coral, Florida – April 25, 2011 – Blue Sparq, Inc., an engineering design and manufacturing company, today announced a new comprehensive one-stop capacitive touch keypad and graphic overlay design and manufacturing service. The incorporation of capacitive touch technology into every day devices such as Apple’s iPhone and iPad has created an expectation for all other devices to follow suit. The user interface is no longer an afterthought. This new expectation is driving engineers and designers to integrate capacitive touch into their products. However, they quickly realize that designing a touch interface for the first time would be a large investment of time and money.

“Our customers routinely tell us that they have purchased capacitive touch design kits from IC manufacturers, and realize the examples shown are far from what is required in an actual product. Even if they were successful in designing what is shown in these kits, they would still need to design, print and assemble the graphic overlay. In cases where the project required a uniformly lit keypad and tactile feedback, the customer complained that there were no practical examples to follow. They finally come to the conclusion that they don’t have to reinvent the wheel, knowing that Blue Sparq possesses the expertise and specialized equipment necessary to design and produce cost effective capacitive touch interfaces.” says Jameel Ahed, President of Blue Sparq, Inc.

Blue Sparq has over three years of capacitive touch keypad design and manufacturing experience. Their multi-disciplined engineering team has implemented capacitive touch technology into real life products in a range of industries such as Medical, Aerospace, Industrial and Consumer. Blue Sparq understands that several aspects of the graphic overlay such as inks and materials used, significantly impact the overall performance of the touch interface. By designing the graphic overlay and the electronics together, Blue Sparq ensures a successful capacitive touch system. Blue Sparq’s patent pending Fore Light™ technology, expertise in designing tactile feedback systems and “state of the art” graphic printing capabilities help provide a futuristic look and feel to your capacitive touch interface, thus giving the client an edge over their competition. Blue Sparq understand the importance of “time to market.” RapidKeypads.com, a division of Blue Sparq, Inc., can provide a quick “Looks like, Feels like” prototype of the custom touch interface, thereby accelerating the time to market. Once approved, Blue Sparq can manufacture the production quantities required.

Blue Sparq, Inc. was founded in 2008 with the aim of providing prototype design and manufacturing services for individuals and businesses wishing to design new or to revamp pre-existing product lines. Blue Sparq’s innovative approach to problem solving has prompted 9 patent filings. www.BlueSparq.com

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If you would like more information please visit www.BlueSparq.com, www.RapidKeypads.com or please call (239) 558-8810 / e-mail info@BlueSparq.com

November 23, 2010 Cape Coral, Florida Blue Sparq, Inc., a high-speed product development company, today announced a unique capacitive touch interface prototyping service for design engineers. This capacitive touch technology can sense through any non-conductive material, allowing the designer to place buttons anywhere, even behind curved surfaces! RapidKeypads.com was created to supply high-quality rapid prototype capacitive touch switch solutions, along with driver electronics, in as little as 5 days! This service provides tremendous value to designers who want a futuristic “look and feel” for their new or existing products in record-breaking time.

“As a high-speed product developer, I simply couldn't wait the industry standard 4-7 weeks for a capacitive touch keypad. Since there are rapid prototyping services capable of making parts for every other aspect of a product’s design, the gap was clear, so we created RapidKeypads.com. In order to offer such a service, there were two challenges: the first was replacing the silver ink conductive layer that is traditionally printed using a silk screen process with a high-speed digital printing method; the second was to make a universal capacitive touch driver IC that could be easily configured by a design engineer having no previous capacitive touch design experience,” says Jameel Ahed, President of Blue Sparq, Inc.

RapidKeypads.com supplies the engineer with a complete capacitive touch interface that includes a custom capacitive touch keypad along with the necessary touch switch driver electronics. The Fast Touch™ electronics system is complete; the engineer doesn’t have to write a single line of code. The feature-rich Fast Touch 16 Eval Kit is easily configurable and provides various communications options (RS232, I2C, SPI, and USB), tactile feedback, audio feedback, and state-of-the-art lighting. Videos demonstrating some of this technology can be found on our company YouTube channel.

Blue Sparq, Inc. was founded in 2008 with the aim of providing prototype design and manufacturing services for individuals and businesses wishing to design new or to revamp pre-existing product lines. Blue Sparq’s innovative approach to problem solving has prompted 9 patent filings in less than 2 years. http://www.BlueSparq.com

If you would like more information visit https://rapidkeypads.com or please call (239) 558-8810 / e-mail info(at)RapidKeypads(dot)com

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