[Product Concept] Are We Really Touching?
* I was on my Macbook and got an inspiration, and I thought it’d be lovely if I shared it despite its unlikely timing.
Don’t get me wrong by the title ladies and gents – I am referring to the touch-phone generations.
When the so-called ‘Touch-phones’ were released into the public, it was considered very revolutionary, for it thwarted the conventional image of a ‘cell phone’ that consisted of a screen and the button pads. Just like the first generation Haptic from Samsung, the radical change in the generations of gadgets took me by surprise.
Now that the Touch phones are widely supplied, I began to get tired of ‘touching’; rather, I began to question is it really meaningful if the users were limited to just ‘poking’ through the phones. For those who are confused, allow me to explain – phones like Iphone and Haptic uses the interface where users navigate through the phone via the touch screens. However, the motions of the touching were heavily limited to poking the in-screen buttons and sliding the in-screen bars.
So I had a thought – why not create more motions? That is, why not enable the users to use various motions with their fingers to carry out the tasks they need to accomplish with their phones? The technology is within reach, and I’m sure the people who desire touch-phones have fingers that are capable of touching more.
Take for example, the Macbook from Apple Computers. Macbooks employ the ‘track-pads’ for mouse control, and took a step further into enabling the users to use multiple finger motions to access different functions.
Watch this short video clip:
Multi-touch Trackpad On Youtube
If this function is successfully implanted into the upcoming cell-phone generations, the use of conventional buttons will decrease, and will contribute to the supply of full-touch phones.
