We're not sure how practical it might turn out to be but Yanko Design is floating an intriguing new input concept for mobiles - Finger-touching or, more accurately, finger-touching-finger.
The idea is that the wrist-strap mobile device scans your open hand to see which parts of your fingers you touch - the three areas of each finger representing different groups of alpha-numeric characters.
[advert]Yanko's rather strangled description of the device - which is designed by Sunman Kwon - goes like this:
Finger Touching Wearable Mobile
Device
A wearable mobile device for enhanced chatting. It introduces a new wearable device that anyone can communicate with that is easier and lighter in mobile circumstances corresponding to the 3.5G, 4G communication standard.
Human hand is the most basic communication method.
For easier and simpler controls, it uses the instinctive input method “finger joint”. Excluding the thumb, each finger joint makes up twelve buttons, with “the knuckle button”, using the cell phone's 3X4 keypad, likely being the most popular input method.
A wearable mobile device for enhanced chatting. It introduces a new wearable device that anyone can communicate with that is easier and lighter in mobile circumstances corresponding to the 3.5G, 4G communication standard.
Human hand is the most basic communication method.
For easier and simpler controls, it uses the instinctive input method “finger joint”. Excluding the thumb, each finger joint makes up twelve buttons, with “the knuckle button”, using the cell phone's 3X4 keypad, likely being the most popular input method.
So how practical do you reckon this design really is? Let us know in the HEXUS.community.
