Knock Knock. Tap Tap. Scratch Scratch. Jot Jot. Wait, that's not how the joke goes. Let's try again. Knock Knock. Who's there? Fin. Fin who? Fin Gersense. Aha, now it makes sense.

Bay Area start-up Qeexo has been working on its FingerSense technology for several years, and it looks like it's starting to reap the fruits of its labor. The software solution, which allows modern touchscreen devices to detect the difference between fingertips, knuckles, nails, styli, and erasers, has been licensed by Huawei (under "Knuckle Sense") and has been shipping with its P8 and P8max since April. It's also included in the company's more recent Honor 7. Thus I'm not sure why Qeexo decided to send its press release only a couple of days ago, but it did serve to bring the technology to our attention and we thought it was cool enough to merit showing you.

Qeexo allows different results from each interaction, like double knocking to take a screenshot, selecting text with the knuckle to avoid tapping and holding, triggering the pen or eraser when in a drawing or note-taking app, using your nail to fire a weapon in a game, and more.

How awesome is that? And to think that there's no special hardware required to tell the difference between 3 different parts of your finger and 2 different areas of a pen! It's also platform agnostic so any smartphone manufacturer or any maker of touchscreen devices can hit Qeexo up to license their technology. Right now, Huawei appears to be the only OEM partner, but component makers STMicroelectronics, Synaptics, and Invensense are all listed as well.

Going back to Huawei and the end of that video where the technology is shown working on a smartwatch... are you thinking what I'm thinking? I know it's conjecture, but boy wouldn't this be super cool on the Huawei Watch?