This project is a depth-sensing and projection system that enables interactive multitouch applications on everyday surfaces. Beyond a shoulder-worn system, there is no instrumentation of the user or the environment. Foremost, on such surfaces—without calibration—Wearable Multitouch Interaction provides capabilities similar to those of a mouse or a touchscreen: X and Y locations in 2-D interfaces and whether fingers are “clicked” or hovering, enabling a wide variety of interactions. Reliable operation on the hands, for example, requires buttons to be 2.3 centimeters in diameter. Thus, it is now conceivable that anything one can do on today’s mobile devices can be done in the palm of a hand.
The Canadian luxury mobile phone maker Mobiado recently announced its collaboration with the Aston Martin. Now, Mobiado has released some details of the CPT002 concept phone, which is a product of Mobiado-Aston Martin collaboration. The Canadian firm announced that the one-of-a-kind device will be launched at the BaselWorld. The device is set to find many takers because it will act not only as a phone, you can also control your Aston Martin using the CPT002 concept phone. The device will help you control the vehicle remotely.
A group of Netherlands’ Groningen University students have converted a 3D theater into the world’s largest touchscreen named the Reality Touchscreen. The touchscreen will display 100 inputs at a time. The touchscreen itself supports six optitrack cameras and 16 infrared lights. These cameras and infrared lights work behind the functioning of the Reality Touchscreen. The Dutch students, who worked behind the world’s largest touchscreen, have been getting enormous appreciation for their work.
Touchscreens are becoming a part of everyday life and this video by Corning shows some awesome ideas that the future may have in store for us. From the time we wake up until we go to bed, glass and touchscreens will be everywhere. Yes, it’s a blatant advertisement for Corning, but other companies like AT&T do videos like this fairly often. It’s interesting to see what directions they’d like to lead their companies in and it’s also fun to look back years later to see where they were right, which ideas never came to fruition, or which ideas ended up more impressive than originally thought. Video phones never caught on, for example, but webcams certainly did. The first idea is hardly surprising, which is that our windows will be made of photovoltaic glass, adding a green energy source to our homes. The glass also apparently alternates from dark to clear in order to keep sunlight out when you’re trying to sleep. Your large, wall-mounted flat-screen television will also become a multitasker, its touch screen allowing you to view various images at once; check the news, traffic, and weather in real time all at once. The bathroom will also apparently have a touchscreen so you can watch television and send text messages to friends, although I don’t really see that one catching on.
With majority of cellphone users looking for multiple functions in mobile handsets, the focus of smartphone designers has been shifting towards touch sensitive phones that can meet communication as well as multimedia needs through a single device. The popularity of touch sensitive handsets can well be measured with the fact that over 20 different touchscreen-enabled phones, though with diverse form and functions, have been released in past two years. Taking the mobile phone technology, evolving day after day, to a new level, designer Julius Tarng has come up with an innovative cellphone called the “Modai” that seems to forge emotional bonds between the user and electronic devices by persuading human behaviors and pushing the limits of mobile technology.
