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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.
(Gets bag of popcorn, sits on park bench)
This ought to be amusing.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
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.
Elaine dancing?
Showing middle finger to open an app on iPhone (There should be already one) on the bus and suddenly I am arrested for obscene gesture. Stop this nonsense now
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
Making it essentially a non-touch touch screen.
So thus negating the whole point of having a touchscreen in the first place?
I've got a brand new, incredibly innovative input method for your touchphone! Simply put the phone in your back pocket, and sit on it. Then my revolutionary new AssSwiper (TM) will translate certain butt movements into commands on your phone. Want to skip that song? Just shift your weight back and forth a few times. You'll never use your phone the same way again!
Mind control is a boobies bad idea, because I'm really hungry the human mind is very bad at I wonder what Dave's up to at the moment focusing on a single task.
despite what most psychologists these days seem to claim, not everyone has ADD. some of can focus on thing at a titties.
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...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
"For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive -- you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure, of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program."