How to give an Android phone 3D Touch by hacking its barometer

[Wireless News]

3D Touch is one of the iPhone 6s’s coolest-new features and now-Marco Chiappetta-has shown that it’s possible to add this feature to at least some Android phones by hacking their barometers. In a video posted on his YouTube account,-Chiappetta-shows how he altered his Sony Xperia Z3 Compact to make its display sensitive to different degrees of pressure, much like the display of the iPhone 6s. DON’T MISS:-Surface Book: How Microsoft kept the ultimate laptop’s best feature a secret “Just a quick-n-dirty proof of concept of how it is possible to use the device’s barometer to simulate Apple’s ‘force touch’ interaction,” he explains on his YouTube page. “There are two major problems: all the flaps (I have a Z3 compact) have

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