MultiTouch idea and you dont even have to touch the screen !!!

October 22nd, 2008 • Filed Under
sidesight

sidesight

Yeah the title would have made no sense but its true according to gearlog.com.

Microsoft has a new technology to show around its called SideSigh. According to them SideSight removes “touch” from the device and makes it a function of the paper, tabletop, or even the air that’s next to the device. What does this mean? According to Microsoft, it opens up the possibility for “touch” functions to be built into tiny devices that don’t actually need a touchscreen.

So what can you actually do with SideSight? Quite a bit, as it turns out. By twisting one’s hands appropriately on either side of the phone, objects could be rotated in place. Pages could be panned and scrolled by moving a hand up and down, and Microsoft also proved that text could be entered and edited on the main screen through a stylus while the other hand scrolled the page , now why would any one do that ?

SideSight technology is being presented at the User Interface Software and Technology conference . Any one has got any video from the event ?

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