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Disney Research (which presumably has lots of mice) created a new sensing system called Touché that can sense a wide variety of human hand and body interactions, not just touch screens, but in all sorts of objects—even liquids.
It’s pretty amazing. Most capacitive sensing (think: your smartphone or trackpad) only operates on one frequency. Touché sweeps over a range of frequencies and uses it to suck down more data about how an object is being touched. It can even tell what kind of actions your body is taking, tacking gestures in mid-air.
The really, really, crazy stuff is still conceptual—like using the body itself as an input device, or your doorknob as a controller. But I love this kind of stuff. Gestures are so obviously the future of input. Bring it. [Touché via New Scientist via Stellar Interesting]
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While the idea is nice, pretty much all the ‘application concepts’ were god awful. Show me something interesting then we’ll talk.
Why not try thinking of some good applications? The “on body” controls could be interesting if tied into Google’s Project Glass, for instance.
It would be an hilarious sight to see two people having sex on the sofa while their gestures are still linked to their hands! Imagine the TV and lights flicking on and off and the toaster coming to eat you