Hi,
the "technology" exists, but perhaps the specific application
implementation you mentioned may not. While I was in the Labs I was
researching some touch screens for table tops and ran across a couple of
systems which would detect gestures without touching the screens.
They could be done (if my memory serves me right) on up to 40"
displays. One method used sound and the other was using light. I'm
sure this
is all pretty well known stuff anyway, but I thought it was pretty neat.
To develop that kind of stuff full time and get paid would be a sweet
job! Of course you'd also have to find a practical use for it which
could sell, but we'd leave that up to someone else. ;-}
'mark
Sam Menter wrote:
I imagine a touchscreen control, roughly the same size as a computer
keyboard, but with the same dimensions ratio as the monitor, that you use to
control the main monitor / PC. It would respond to various of gestures - 2
fingers, 3 fingers, swiping, tapping etc.
This could combine the benefits of the controls of the touchscreen with the
benefits of having the screen at a comfortable height.
A specific gesture could then make the pad display a keyboard when necessary
and other controls as / when needed.
Open up your media player and it displays media controls. Software
developers could develop specific control interfaces for their application.
Does this exist already? Has anyone ever built something similar? All the
technology exists, it would be a case of pulling it all together.
Sam
www.pixelthread.co.uk
2009/1/3 SteveJB <[email protected]>
Wouldn't adding a touch sensitive surface to replace the conventional
2 buttons and scroll wheel on a mouse be a way of adding finger
gesture sensing technology to conventional mouses?
The technology for adding touch sensing to contoured surfaces maybe a
few years off but it would certainly be more convenient for a user to
use their index finger to move the cursor over relatively small
distances than to do the same by moving the entire physical mouse.
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