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Control Your Apps Without Your Finger

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the windex-votes-no dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Sounds tiring by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You'll notice they mention arms, hands AND fingers in the full summary.

    Meaning it will also read the gestures of your fingers.

    Making it essentially a non-touch touch screen.

  2. Re:Sounds tiring by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Making it essentially a non-touch touch screen.

    So thus negating the whole point of having a touchscreen in the first place?

  3. Re:Prior Art - for decades by rubycodez · · Score: 2, Interesting

    prior art indeed, funny to see the same things reinvented again and again over the decades. Having worked in CADD/CAM since 70s, seen at trade shows all manner of gesture sensors, 3D viewing systems, gloves and other body position transducers...