System for detecting the position of an object on a detecting surface, as well as for generating and outputting object-specific information, comprising a detecting unit having a touchpad for capacitively detecting the object by a plurality of first electrical conductors and a plurality of second electrical conductors that are disposed, in a plan view of the conductors (24, 28), in a crossing manner with the first conductors, and a contact layer disposed above the conductors (24, 28), the topside of the contact layer being formed as a detecting surface; upon the detecting surface being contacted by an object, the object is capacitively detected and a signal can be picked up from the conductors (24, 28), using which signal the position of the contacting on the detecting surface is determinable, wherein the contact layer is configured as a decorative layer having a visually and/or haptically detectable decoration, wherein an evaluating unit for generating object data associated with the object located on the detecting surface, a transmitter unit for transmitting the object data, a control unit having a receiver unit for receiving the object data, a computer for evaluating the object data and for generating evaluation data, as a function of the object data, in accordance with a predetermined program, and an output unit for outputting of information derived from the evaluation data, wherein in case of the visually detectable decoration, positional fields, paths/tracks, visual signs such as ornaments, images, pictograms, graphical surfaces such as color fields or letter-number fields are formed with the decoration and, in case of the haptically detectable decoration, positional fields and paths/tracks are detectable, different decorative layers with decorations different with respect to each other are provided in an exchangeable manner, the program is adapted to the particular decoration in such a manner that the position of the object on the detecting surface with respect to the decoration can be determined by the program, a thickness and/or shape and/or size and/or doping with charges of at least one electrically-conductive layer or of a plurality of electrically-conductive surface area portions of the at least one object, and/or the pattern that differ from one another of the electronically-conductive surface area portions of the at least one object and/or the contour of the underside of the at least one object, which underside is located on the detecting surface, is contained in the object data generated from the signal, such that not only the position of the at least one object but also specific features such as the shape, size, and patterning or coding of its underside can be detected by the touchpad. a detecting unit having a touchpad for capacitively detecting the object by a plurality of first electrical conductors and a plurality of second electrical conductors that are disposed, in a plan view of the conductors (24, 28), in a crossing manner with the first conductors, and a contact layer disposed above the conductors (24, 28), the topside of the contact layer being formed as a detecting surface; upon the detecting surface being contacted by an object, the object is capacitively detected and a signal can be picked up from the conductors (24, 28), using which signal the position of the contacting on the detecting surface is determinable, wherein the contact layer is configured as a decorative layer having a visually and/or haptically detectable decoration, wherein an evaluating unit for generating object data associated with the object located on the detecting surface, a transmitter unit for transmitting the object data, a control unit having a receiver unit for receiving the object data, a computer for evaluating the object data and for generating evaluation data, as a function of the object data, in accordance with a predetermined program, and an output unit for outputting of information derived from the evaluation data, wherein in case of the visually detectable decoration, positional fields, paths/tracks, visual signs such as ornaments, images, pictograms, graphical surfaces such as color fields or letter-number fields are formed with the decoration and, in case of the haptically detectable decoration, positional fields and paths/tracks are detectable, different decorative layers with decorations different with respect to each other are provided in an exchangeable manner, the program is adapted to the particular decoration in such a manner that the position of the object on the detecting surface with respect to the decoration can be determined by the program, a thickness and/or shape and/or size and/or doping with charges of at least one electrically-conductive layer or of a plurality of electrically-conductive surface area portions of the at least one object, and/or the pattern that differ from one another of the electronically-conductive surface area portions of the at least one object and/or the contour of the underside of the at least one object, which underside is located on the detecting surface, is contained in the object data generated from the signal, such that not only the position of the at least one object but also specific features such as the shape, size, and patterning or coding of its underside can be detected by the touchpad.