Control Your Apps Without Your Finger 119
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'm loving it. (Score:4, Funny)
This ought to be amusing.
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
gesture (Score:5, Funny)
Control apps with your ass! (Score:3, Funny)
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!
Re:Wait, I still have to move? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Wait, I still have to move? (Score:5, Funny)
despite what most psychologists these days seem to claim, not everyone has ADD. some of can focus on thing at a titties.
Re:I'm loving it. (Score:5, Funny)
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...
Re:I'm loving it. (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:gesture (Score:3, Funny)
I'd say urine big trouble, mister!
Don't move! (Score:5, Funny)
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."