Nod Gesture Control Ring

TechCrunch reports that "Nod Gesture Control Ring Is Designed For Continual Wear, Starts Selling Today For $149"



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Duet: Exploring Joint Interactions on a Smart Phone and a Smart Watch

"The emergence of smart devices (e.g., smart watches and smart eyewear) is redefining mobile interaction from the solo performance of a smart phone, to a symphony of multiple devices. In this paper, we present Duet -- an interactive system that explores a design space of interactions between a smart phone and a smart watch. Based on the devices' spatial configurations, Duet coordinates their motion and touch input, and extends their visual and tactile output to one another. This transforms the watch into an active element that enhances a wide range of phone-based interactive tasks, and enables a new class of multi-device gestures and sensing techniques. A technical evaluation shows the accuracy of these gestures and sensing techniques, and a subjective study on Duet provides insights, observations, and guidance for future work."

Gesture Script

GestKeyboard: Enabling Gesture-Based Interaction on Ordinary Physical Ke...

"At CHI 2014, National University of Singapore PhD Candidate Haimo Zhang and Google Research Scientist Yang Li presented GestKeyboard, a novel technique for gesturing on an ordinary, unmodified physical keyboard."



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Apple new touchscreen tech would use IR light to discern hard presses from soft

Appleinsider reports that Apple new touchscreen tech would use IR light to discern hard presses from soft: "Apple's proposed invention, as described by a patent application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday, uses frustrated total internal reflection in conjunction with other touch sensing technology to determine how hard a user is pressing on a device screen. "

Microsoft Demos Its Touch-Focused Office Suite For Windows | TechCrunch

TechCrunch reports: "This morning at its Build developer conference in San Francisco, Microsoft showed off the coming touch-friendly build of its Office suite coming for the Windows platform. "