Microsoft Develops “Tech Twist” Portable Technology
April 24, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Microsoft
With such ingenuity as the rumble pad, the motion-sensitive Wiimote, the touch screen, and ultra light devices, Microsoft is naming a new project that brings the Force into gadgets. Imagine your laptop, phone or PDA to be a pice of thin cardboard which you can “sort of” bend around. The hand gestures shown above are some of the common calisthenics we like to perform on such devices — pulling and pushing and slightly bending a cut piece of cardboard results in effects that are determined by the laws of physics.
Now imagine the same thing on a device with a big screen where Microsoft calculates a “virtual force” that can expand browser windows, minimize browsers or even twist them. The possibilities are endless, as you read this short white paper on the new technology of “The Force.”
[sourced at OhGizmo | White Paper PDF Source for Image]
Interesting entry
Interesting technology. What about commercial products?