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, such as rolling, throwing, squeezing or moving. It features 14 pressure sensors, a 3 way acceleration sensor and Bluetooth. Thanks to its sensors, it can reply to the force it’s being squeezed with, or the amount of impact it receives from being thrown. While you probably won’t be using that at your next business meeting, it would be very suitable for children, particularly those who are growing up, offering them an intuitive input method. Check out a video of it in actin.

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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 browsing through photos, with the hope of introducing more actions when practical applications are developed. The camera you see in the demo above relies on a high-speed, 154 frame per second, sensor, but we wonder just how much more efficient the use of your mobile device would be with that sort of user interface.

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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 touch the phone. The front facing camera used in that demo is a 154 FPS (frame per second) sensor, which will mean we’ll need better front-facing cameras on our phones for that to work. With that in mind, possibly we’ll have user interfaces similar to those in the Minority Report in the near future; now that’d be really cool, wouldn’t it?

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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 supposedly makes things easier for the end. Of course, there’s additionally predictive input included, so in case you’re not fond of finishing the words for yourself, you know you’ve got something to fall back on. The app is currently available in the AppStore for free and whether you’re interested in a comparison with Swype, they’ve additionally come up with a video, albeit it seems to be a video spliced from an earlier Swype demo.

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