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Touch-based Handhelds Turned Inside Out

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the good-touch-bad-touch dept.

holy_calamity writes "Mitsubishi and Microsoft have made a prototype PSP-like handheld operated using a touch interface on the back — the idea is to give a firmer hold, prevent obscuring the screen and allow greater accuracy than the iPhone and others. The users fingers are shown as shadows on the screen so they can see what they're doing, making the device look transparent. As a video shows, it's far from market ready, but the design principle seems sound."

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  1. This looks promising by black_lbi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Accordion Hero anyone?

  2. Interesting idea but... by squoozer · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's an interesting idea there is no doubt about that. I really liked the map browsing right up to the point where I noticed the zooming in action looked a lot like he was trying to reproduce goatse with the map. The device will never been the same for me.

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  3. Re:Playing to the market by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Funny thing is, that camera behind the device points to dark surface, meaning high contrast levels (and accuracy) can only be achieved if you hands are white. It seems apparent that Microsoft hates niggers or they would have made back-panel white.

  4. Re:Mod parent down. Well-known religious bigot. by roguetrick · · Score: 2, Funny

    Haha, Sceintology.

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  5. Re:Mod parent down. Well-known religious bigot. by AndroidCat · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, and apparently I'm well-known and a leader now! I did not receive that memo yet. The raise will be nice once the Marcabs finally get caught up on my back-pay.

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  6. Re:Playing to the market by SQLGuru · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, they should color the back panel green and hope that certain alien species and plants are the only ones that don't want to play? Or maybe go with blue....and hope that flowers, fish, and birds don't want to play?

    Layne

  7. Re:Mod parent down. Well-known religious bigot. by Asztal_ · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought Slashdot had a tradition of welcoming evil overlords.