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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.
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
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.
Back when Bluetooth first came out, we used to play the game "Wireless Headset or Missed His Meds", where we'd watch someone walk down the street talking to himself and try to figure out if he was using a headset or just talking to himself.
This adds a whole new dimension to the game.
"He's not shaking his phone up and down, he's masturbating on a porn page"
I can see the marketing song for this, to the Village People's "YMCA":
"Young man! Want to open that app?
I say.
Touch Screen! covers your screen with crap,
so now,
Gestures!, keep your hands off your screen,
and then,
your...
phone...
will...
stay...
so...
clean...
Open your apps to the Y! M! C! A!
Dance, tap, and shake your phone the touchless way.
You can open an app,
your phone stays free of crap,
you can stay in great shape
and then you, can, wave, like an ape...
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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."