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Control Your Apps Without Your Finger
VincenzoRomano writes "You won't need to swipe your fingers over smallish touch screens. You'll move your arms, hands and fingers (or whatever else applies) in the air or shake the handset. The phone camera(s), the G-sensor, the compass and so on will be used by a software to understand the gestures and to translate them into control commands. This breakthrough comes from a company called GestureTek, a non-startup company in this field." I love the idea of my screen no longer being smudged. I hate the idea of people doing this on a bus.
I love the idea of my screen no longer being smudged.
Oh no! You have to spend all of 3 seconds to wipe off your screen occasionally.
I'm willing to bet that using such a device will require more effort to use than say a trackball or mouse.
Trackball - move your fingers
Mouse - move your hand
Touch screen / gesture thing - move your arm
Motion based gaming thing - move everything
Sure all these gesture things are great for games and helping fatties lose weight but for ordinary folk who actually need to use it for a large part of their day it will just cause gorilla arm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_arm#Gorilla_Arm
Unfortunately, there are places in the US that still have obscenity laws, which cover naughty words and obscene gestures. People can be, and have been, arrested for violating such laws.
"This post contains words, known to the State of California to cause thought. Wash brain thoroughly after reading."
Remember not too many years ago people acting like this on the street were institutionalized. Now it is acceptable behavior in some eyes.