donderdag 29 mei 2003

The iGesture. Apart from the intermittent bouts of carpal tunnel, we're pretty happy with our mouse (Microsoft's Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer, if you have to know), but Wired reports on a company called FingerWorks has an idea for eliminating all that repetitive strain: hand gestures. FingerWorks sells two types of products. The iGesture pad is about the size of a standard mouse pad. The TouchStream keyboard functions like a regular keyboard, but also incorporates the same gesture-sensing technology, eliminating the need for a mouse. The gesturing interface works like this. To open a file, a user rotates a hand as if to open a jar. To close a file requires the opposite rotation. To cut a piece of text, pinch the fingers together, and to paste, flick the fingers outward. To zoom in, expand all five fingers, jazz-hands style. Contract the hand to zoom out. The article doesn't say what gesture the iGesture uses to send a file to the trash, but we're betting that it's something like flipping the bird. Or at least it should be. Read [Gizmodo]
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