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Monday, January 08, 2007
A keypad in the palm of your hand
Finger Touching Wearable Mobile Device is a design study by Yanko Design that uses the palm of the hand as a surface for showing the standard phone keypad layout, as well as act keypad.
It doesn't say how the keys are supposed to be read, but that could be done by an optical sensor in the device (likely) or by measuring an electrical current through the fingers (less likely).
It's clear this hasn't been tested in any way. For one, it doesn't look like the device can stay in the position it's in.
I'm probably old-fashioned, but I'd prefer a real alphanumeric keypad instead of this any day.
It doesn't say how the keys are supposed to be read, but that could be done by an optical sensor in the device (likely) or by measuring an electrical current through the fingers (less likely).
It's clear this hasn't been tested in any way. For one, it doesn't look like the device can stay in the position it's in.
I'm probably old-fashioned, but I'd prefer a real alphanumeric keypad instead of this any day.
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Well, basically this is nothing new. Check this http://marisil.com/ web site. These guys have also a paten on their invention and they are having some cool videos. They also seem to work on some open source project to allow implementation for various hardwares. Augmented Reality here we come. And if Sunman Kwon would have bother to check it, he would have found that there is quite much literature on the scholar.google.com about this interaction and quite much research.
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