Okay, two words, feels like… wait, it’s one word? Okay, two words in a single. First word, three letters, feels like “arm.” Oh, it’s “arm.” Okay, second word. You’re typing. Typing on keys. It’s keyboard. It’s not a keyboard? No, it’s a keyboard. The word isn’t “keyboard?” Really? Maybe “keypad?” It’s “keypad!” What the heck is an ArmKeypad? Seems it’s NEC ‘s attempt at letting us control our portable devices using charades-like gestures, which we first heard about last week . You may tap your arms elsewhere to regulate volume or skip tracks, even clap your hands should you’re happy and your want your PMP to grasp it. The system will depend on a wrist-borne accelerometer that detects the impacts and, while the video below looks a chunk goofy, that’s much better than fumbling along with your smartphone while sucking wind for your thrice-weekly runs. And, it’s certainly far simpler than the projected Skinput . NEC expects to have this tech built right into a watch-like device sometime inside the next two years. That watch had better have a calculator.
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