Finger-touch Cellphone
The crew at Yanko Design have announced another way to input info into your phone:
"A wearable mobile device for enhanced chatting. It introduces a new wearable device that anyone can communicate with that is easier and lighter in mobile circumstances corresponding to the 3.5G, 4G communication standard. Human hand is the most basic communication method. For easier and simpler controls, it uses the instinctive input method “finger joint”. Excluding the thumb, each finger joint makes up twelve buttons, with “the knuckle button”, using the cell phone’s 3X4 keypad, likely being the most popular input method."
What’s so great about this? The idea that there’s more than one way to push buttons on your phone. The info quoted above is pretty much all you’ll get from the website, but it looks like it projects the numbers & letters onto your fingers, and they’re read the same way as the i.Tech Virtual Keyboard mentioned earlier.
Think about this for a minute. How and why would you use this? Would you wear it on your hand like this all day, then line up your hand just so to type, call, etc? Probably not, but that’s not the point.
Just consider this also: no matter how much the iPhone (or whatever it ends up being called) stirs the imaginations & envy of the mobile community, it’s not likely that a lot of us (as in WM users) will buy one. Why? Because our phones, both PPC & Smartphone, already do basically everything the iPhone does and more. Plus the interface isn’t the greatest. Just for the heck of it, this weekend I changed my cLaunch settings to emulate the iPhone screen. It’s pretty, but I still have to hit the Calendar button to see my appointments for the day. My wife’s Samsung i320 Smartphone had to have a third-party app so she could see more than one line of her appointments & tasks (why Microsoft hasn’t fixed this yet…). Our phones give us more information by default. If I want my phone to look & work like an iPhone, I basically have to cripple it.
The upshot of all this is that the iPhone and this finger-touch phone aren’t the be-all end-all of mobile communication, but they get the ideas out there for everyone else. A touchscreen-only phone has already been out there for a few months before Apple got into the act. Remember, they didn’t come up with anything new; they just packaged it better. There were dozens of portable MP3 players before the iPod came along, and look what happened.
Personally, I think the end result is the Bluetooth earbud-sized device that actually contains the ENTIRE cellular phone. It syncs via BT, is voice-activated, and when you need an actual screen, connects to something like the Nomad video specs. Maybe stick a sensor on the glasses so they can pick up movement of your hands & fingers so you can type, or just take voice command. We have the technology to do all this now; we just haven’t made the PDA phone small enough yet. Of course, that’s just my opinion; I could be wrong.
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