Making arbitrary objects touch sensitive.

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Sensitive Object is a firm that has invented one of those so-astoundingly-obvious-why-didn't-I-think-of-it technologies. By attaching a pair of ultra-sensitive accelerometers to an arbitrary ridid object, they can detect where on the surface it has been touched, making most any kind of object a touch sensitive device. I can think of literally hundreds of uses for such a thing. The big question in my mind is, how complex can the geometry of the rigid object be? Can a carved candlestick or decorateve sculpture be used as a touch device yet, or is that asking too much right now?