Invisible iPhone Prototype [Video]

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Posted May 23, 2011 at 1:28pm by iClarified

Hasso-Plattner-Institut has developed 'Imaginary Phone', a technology that allows users to control their mobile devices without taking them out of their pocket.

Instead of using an actual device, users mimic the interaction on the palm of their hand. The interaction is tracked by a wearable depth camera which sends input events to the actual physical device. By mimicking the layout of the physical device, here an iPhone, users can operate the device based on spatial memory built up while using the physical device.

The shown work is a research project by Sean Gustafson, Christian Holz and Prof. Patrick Baudisch at the Human Computer Interaction Lab at Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany.

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Trev - May 24, 2011 at 2:12pm

Sounds neat, until you spend more than 30 seconds thinking about it, then you realize this will be an as seen on tv pos that's sold to morons in the middle of the night

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Tony - May 24, 2011 at 11:22am

What a pure stupidity!!!! Period :)

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Sam - May 24, 2011 at 1:40am

Super gayî¡î¡î¡î¡

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iPhone-Looney - May 24, 2011 at 12:43am

Fool's Day (April 1st) is over!

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BSoares - May 23, 2011 at 2:53pm

WTF? Someone tells me why this would be useful.

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Jared - May 23, 2011 at 2:14pm

What a total ripoff of Pranav Mistry's genius concept of a "Sixth Sense" device...except Pranav's actually lets you see what you're doing and interact with your environment in the same way: http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

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SteveB - May 23, 2011 at 8:27pm

Agreed, i was waiting to here or see something about an incorporation of the "sixth sense'

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Tibian - May 23, 2011 at 2:10pm

this is useless, without being able to see the screen what functionality does it have? you can select an app, but you can't see what you're doing to it. ignore a phone call like in the video? it's not hard to push the lock button when the phone is still in your pocket. plus you have to wear a camera while operating the thing? this is one of the the biggest wastes of time and research i've ever seen.

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