Peephole Displays

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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[grub]

Being that it's similar to looking through a small hole to see a large interior I think they should call it The Speculum

And the lawsuits are already being filed...

[Motherfucking Shit]

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.

In other news, the X10 corporation, makers of stealthy spy cameras and ubiquitous web adverts, announced today that they are filing a patent infringement lawsuit against an unnamed Berkeley student. Said the CEO, "peepholes are our market and this is a clear case of infringement!"

Nice concept

[e8johan]

Nice concept, but I wouldn't want to use it in a bus or such. It real life it would crave some sort of gyro to detect movement. Imagine a bus rounding a corner and the text compensating by scrolling. At least it would serve as amusement to the fellow busriders.

Of course there are other solutions, and there is defenently a need for a solution to this problem. I would suggest having touch sensitive sides of the actual PDA. To scroll, simply stroke the side of the PDA (not a wheel, but the side). But there are probably even better solutions to this. I enjoy the peephole approach, but must regrettably say that the problem is to control it (without clicking tiny sliders).

What we really need is...

[ewanrg]

I think this is a very innovative way to make the UI help get around the physical limitations of the device.

But what we REALLY need are answers to those physical limitations. I have a lot more hope for a foldable display in the long term than in ways to try to make a big picture/UI fit on a small screen.

Not knocking what is an excellant piece of work, but sometimes a great solution to a problem blocks better solutions.

Just my .02 worth...

Mirror of the videos

[Kalewa]

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.

Karate(TM)

[karlandtanya]

You could use the gyros (or whatever they use) in this device to detect orientation.

And you could use GPS to detect precision.

Then you could use a very fast wireless link to connect to a collection of high resolution earth images.

So, if you held the device in front of you and looked at it, you could see exactly what you'd see if your hand was empty.

PHBs should be able to buy this "empty-hand" device for $2500.00 in two years; the rest of will get it for $99.99 at Wal-Mart in five.

Re:Text of Proposal document

[kah13]

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.