Unsurprisingly, the capacitive-touch interface will be jumping, like a virus, from computing devices to home appliances. To that end Samsung has teamed up with California-based Synaptics to incorporate the latter company's capacitive touch controls into the former company's new Hauzen Zero air conditioner.
If you've never heard of Synaptics before, here's a look at some of their touch interfaces, demo'd here on a cell phone: