The moving finger

Sep 06

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ZD Net Blogs – The University of Buffalo’s VR lab has developed a cap for your index finger that is exquisitely sensitive to movement-to the point that it can actually be used as a 3D digitizer. It has an accelerometer, a force sensor, and a motion tracker, and its developers believe it’ll hit the market in three years, which is admirably conservative-usually researchers predict (and it’s always hubris) that they’re only one year away from their first Ferrari. So what? First, I want no lame jokes about communicating with the computer using your center digit. With that out of the way: This device is exciting mostly because of cell phones, which currently have at least two disadvantages in the UI department…