Your palm becomes your iPhone

It will be past, when you are using your smartphones holding in your hands and tapping the screen. Now when we are going so strong on sixth sense technology implementation, German researchers have decided to apply the same technology on simplifying the usage of smartphones. You will be having an imaginary phone screen on your palm and you need to just tap your palm to operate your phone and the system sends the command to actual phone.

The system relies on three wonderful piece of technology, they are depth sensitive camera, software analysing the picture, and wireless radio to send the instruction back to actual phone. Patrick Baudisch, say “serves as a shortcut that frees user from the necessity to retrieve the actual physical device”. Now if you are driving a car and you need to attend the phone call, you don’t need to tap the phone screen rather you can just receive by one click of your finger on your hand. Guys, See here how it will work...

The concept is very thoughtful and innovative implementation of the Sixth Sense technology developed by Pranav Mistry and Pattie Meas. But this is all together a different way of exploiting the Sixth Sense Technology. Here first of all, there won’t be any strict gestures to learn like suggested before. Moreover this is feedback free way of using Sixth Sense Technology, which means there will be nothing like projector or any interface which will provide reflection of your acts. On first thought you may be finding bit weird but all together it’s not completely replacing the physical existence of actual smart phones rather it is just a way of making interaction with actual phone more convenient.

Crisp of the technology is capturing the gestures of the person. Camera focuses the finger position on the palm and subtracts the background. This technology has worked in harsh lighting conditions and on over brightness too. Software identifies finger positions and correlates with the object position on the actual screen of iPhone. As said mentioned earlier Wi-Fi radio transmits these movements to the phone.

Study carried out in October, it has been found out that usually people finds correct position of 2/3 icons on the blank iPhone and on the tapping they are 80% accurate. Daniel Vogal, postdoctoral fellow of University of Waterloo, says “It’s a little bit like learning to touch type on the keyboard, but without any formal system or the benefit of the feel of the keys.” He added that voice control can also be a better serving option but have some limitations like it can fail in noisy environment. Anyways we will always be waiting for such a wonderful piece of innovation which will make out like more lethargic but pretty interesting and full of technologies all around.