Watch phones are here and touchscreen wrist phones are here too, taking the liberty and following the opportunistic league, designer Susan Cho has conceptualized a multi-touch phone that you can wear on the wrist. Now, there is still time before multi-touch technology reaches something so small in interface, but because the moment is right, we’ll take a look at what Cho has conjured up in this Sidewinder watch phone. The sleek and trendy watch phones interface is pretty calling, it features different menus and features like, contacts, keypad, setting, tool and others found on the smartphones very clearly on the UI, which the user can access with least fuss even when multi-touching. Equipped with GPS and maps, the Sidewinder watch phones seems a smartphone of the future, but how long we’ll have to wait before something of the sort gets a commercial go is something worth a thought. Would you want to trouble your brains a bit?
Minebea in collaboration with Professor Kazuo Kawasaki has developed Cool Leaf, the next-generation flat surface which can be used for input devices. The company exhibited a keyboard, remote control and a calculator with Cool Leaf, which is flat transparent acrylic board with no gaps between parts and no keys to show. These devices (Φ-QWERTY, Φ-Remote and Φ-Calcs) are flat to the core based on a single board which leaves no spaces in between making it easier to keep the devices clean and dust free, in contrast to the traditional keyboards and remotes that have spaces between buttons which make them prone to dust.
Profoundly ultramodern style and design make the e-paper timing watch a product typical of Tokyoflash creations. The concept’s name has been inspired by the use of e-paper that shows the time digitally in negative space, thereby enabling the user to see the time by looking for the digital numbers between the dark dots. The slim bracelet design holds buttons to control the device and also carries Bluetooth connectivity. Would that be your new style, or is this too stretched for now? You decide.
Acer hopes to mesmerize the electronic world by introducing ultra-thin frameless notebooks that would feature touchscreen keyboards using back of the panel’s glass substrate. Scheduled to make their debut in the second half of the year, the notebooks in development would display frames by printing colors onto the back of the notebook’s reinforced glass substrate by Corning. This design idea would reduce the notebook’s size to an amazingly thin size and would also reduce material costs.
Touchscreen interfaces have seen many transformations over time, from small displays to large ones from cellphone displays to computers; they have been incorporated into just everything. Now a new skin-based interface dubbed the Skinput will get touchscreen flashing onto a user’s hands and arms. The interface being developed by Chris Harrison from Carnegie Mellon University with Dan Morris and Desney Tan at Microsoft’s research lab uses a micro-sized pico projector and an acoustic detector which detects ultra-low frequency sounds generated by finger tapping on the skin.
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