Finger-Touch Cellphone

[Kris Kumar]

http://www.mobilitysite.com/2007/01/fingertouch_cellphone.php

"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."



I will leave it up to our readers to decide whether this concept is a hit or a miss.

[Kris Kumar]

http://www.mobilitysite.com/2007/01/fingertouch_cellphone.php

"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."



I will leave it up to our readers to decide whether this concept is a hit or a miss.

[Mike Temporale]

I marked it down as a maybe. I don't like the look of what they show in that picture, but I think it has some potential. It just needs to find the right design.

[Jerry Raia]

You left out, "A joke". :lol:

[Kris Kumar]

Originally Posted by Jerry Raia

You left out, "A joke". :lol:

Now that option would have made lot more readers participate in the poll. :-)

[Kris Kumar]

I can see it as a Bluetooth based keyboard accessory for regular phones; but as a phone all by itself...nah.

[onlydarksets]

Originally Posted by Jerry Raia

You left out, "A joke". :lol:

Think about it, though - media buttons everywhere! Your ears could adjust the volume, and you could blink your eyes to watch a video! How many should I put you down for?

[Jerry Raia]

Well now that you mentioned media buttons I'm all over it! :P

[hotdram]

Originally Posted by onlydarksets

Think about it, though - media buttons everywhere! Your ears could adjust the volume, and you could blink your eyes to watch a video!

Every time I pick my nose, the next track would be selected, great.

~Rob

[Mike Temporale]

Originally Posted by hotdram

Every time I pick my nose, the next track would be selected, great.

8O :rotfl:

[Jerry Raia]

I actually like that perspective on media buttons on Smartphones. Fitting.