Anyone remember the Framingham, MA company that came up with a CRT monitor stand with load cells built into the base? Any monitor placed on top (with some calibration) instantly became a touch screen.
This story I saw today reminded me of that. Multitouch On Any Surface With A Contact Microphone http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/04/mogees-multitouch-on-any-surface-with-a-contact-microphone/ Bruno Zamborlin's Mogees (an abbreviation of "mosaicing gestural surface") takes input from a contact microphone and analyzes it to determine the placement and direction of gestures on any surface through which vibrations can be detected. The accompanying video doesn't show precision cursor control, but instead shows how any surface can be turned into a musical instrument that responds differently depending on where it is tapped or the gesture. What if you could put your iPhone on the table and, if it rang, tap the table once to answer, tap twice for speakerphone, put your whole hand down to silence it, etc? That foretells some interesting possibilities for what you can do with a phone app. and this sort of signal processing. (A while back there was a story where some researches processed an audio signal captured from an iPhone placed on a desk next to a keyboard and were able to determine what was typed to something like 80% accuracy.) -Tom _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
