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Peephole Displays

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-isn't-that-clever dept.

benh57 writes "A student at Berkeley has come up with a novel approach for navigating small handheld displays. In effect the display is a "peephole" into a much larger information area. You see different parts of the display by moving the handheld around - no more tiny scrollbars. Check out the DiVX movies to see it in action. It even works in 3D!"

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  1. Mirror of the videos by Kalewa · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well my web server admin just said today "it can handle a slashdot, easily" - so I guess I'm going to see if he was just talking out his arse ;) These are just the low-res ones. peepdemo-200.avi (15.3mb) peepfig.avi (13.4mb) peep.avi (44.2mb) First two should be done in about five minutes, third may take a little longer.

  2. Re:Text of Proposal document by kah13 · · Score: 5, Informative

    He missed a big reference: this idea was already proposed by Jef Raskin. It's called ZoomWorld, some references can be found in his "The Humane Interface" book. The example he shows is the same idea used to provide information about patients in an ICU at Catholic Healthcare West. There is also a company doing something with this idea in webspace, Cincro. Their product is called Zanvas.