Samsung skips the touchscreen, patents gesture-based phone interface

by Nilay Patel posted Apr 19th 2008 at 12:17AM

Samsung's been getting pretty creative with cell cameras lately -- the Instinct lets you pan around web pages by tracking movement with the camera, for example -- but the company's latest patent application, for a gesture-based phone interface, might be a little less practical. The idea is to use the phone's camera to track your hand movements, which, from the drawings, should have you looking insane on the subway in no time. Of course, we've all been guilty of waving at and even talking to our devices when they're acting up, so maybe a little feedback wouldn't be a bad thing -- there's one gesture we'd definitely like to see programmed in there.

[Via Textually.org]

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung

Tags: gesture, gesture control, GestureControl, interface, patent, ui

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Steve T @ Apr 19th 2008 3:56PM

Obviously someone has been trolling the comments at AppleInsider.

http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=86151&page=2

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Juice @ Apr 20th 2008 1:55PM

Wow. It's amazing how these companies are making it harder and harder to do the simplest things. Can I get a regular dpad and call it a day? Shit man. Work on the f'ing battery life.