Peppeddu says:

That’s nice but the holy grail of the next generation of mobile devices is touch feedback.

Gumbi says:

Me want.

O'Really says:

Seems cumbersome and quirky. I’ll stick with regular touch for now.

Pierre says:

I got cramps in my thumb just by watching the video!

nauc says:

whats wrong with a touch screen?

Drive By Poster says:

“Bend” gestures seems pretty awkward. And I seriously doubt that they have a flexible battery technology worth bothering with.

Still, this could be a technology for small, breaking things prone kids.

msbpodcast says:

With the Wii controller and Kinnect™ sensing technology, interaction is moving away from direct physical haptics with a device.

This will find some applications in a very narrow niche, (like humidity exposure sensors in your cell phone which can detect if you ever got your cell phone wet, [like you dropped it in a urinal, {or you dropped in a pint of beer, or some other action which you would never have tried sober. {hic! Guilty as charged occifer...] :-}])

I’m looking at a $32 arduino board with a $20 ultrasonic sonar Ping))) distance sensor on my desk which I use to activate my desk lamp. (How lazy can I get, right?

Since the Ping))) uses two sensors, it can sense object position in two dimensions, meaning it can be used to detect motion around separate light sources and turn the light nearest light source to maximum strength.

I’m thinking of getting a second one operating in an axis 90° to the first sensor and integrating it into a 3D position sensor which would enable kinaesthetics sensing of body positions of one or more dancers on a stage.

That’s going to take some cute programming on my part…