Puyocon Offers Alternative Input Method
Bored of communicating with your computer via a keyboard and mouse? Well, whether you want something more interesting, you’ll be hoping that the Puyocon, developed by the folks by at Japan’s Tsukuba University, becomes a mass market device. The Puyocon is a small, ball-shaped, soft and wireless controller that responds to a variety of moments, [...]
Vision-based Input Interface
Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa and Dr. Takashi Komuro of the Tokyo University pitted their brains together to develop a new input method known as “vision-based Input Interface”. Through the use of a forward facing camera, all five fingers can be recognized by the camera, and will be used for various tasks such as typing, clicking and [...]
New Input Mechanism That Lets You Wave Your Fingers At Your Phone
Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa and Dr. Takashi Komuro of the Tokyo University have come up with a new input method that they shout “vision-based input interface”. Basically that system uses a forward facing camera to read the gestures of your fingers, allowing you to type, visit, browse pictures and some other stuff without having to physically [...]
TikiNotes Virtual Keyboard For iPhone Takes On Swype
Many iPhone users out there are probably intrigued by Swype’s input method, but while Swype isn’t available as an input method on the iPhone, you might want to take a look at TikiNotes from Tiki’Labs. that app will let users drill down into one of six alphabet sectors and pick a letter from there, which [...]
