Coming Soon: Your Smartphone On Your Palm, Literally!

You must have been through time when you forgot your smartphone back home and kept struggling throughout the day (or hours). Well, as we all know that your hand is something you cannot leave back home (pun intended), researchers have developed a technology that literally puts the mobile phone on your palm. 

Researcher Masatoshi Ishikawa along with his colleagues at the University of Tokyo have devised this innovative technology, which uses a unique camera, which is capable of combining high-speed vision and two rotational mirrors. It then projects the device’s display or keyboard onto your palm or any surface, allowing you to use it remotely from anywhere.

Ishikawa said, “The system can detect the movement of a three-dimensional object every two milliseconds.”

The high-speed vision allows the programme to track moving objects, so users would be free to walk with the phone image in palm, without the display ever shifting, ABC News reported.

The computer system beams ultrasonic wave emitters, so the user actually feels the keyboard pressing against their skin, without anything in their hand. The sensation is as small as a 3-gramme object.

"You won't need a keyboard, you won't need to carry a smartphone, or a computer. You can make a call without anything," Ishikawa said. He expects to commercialise this technology in a year or two.

Source:Internet  

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Your palm could work as your mobile phone soon

Just imagine you could use you palm as your mobile phone. It may not be a dream anymore as researchers led by Masatoshi Ishikawa at University of Tokyo is developing this technology which may become a reality in a couple of years. So, don’t mistake it for a part of science fiction. Once this actually happens, you won’t need to carry a keyboard, smartphone, or a computer. According to reports appearing online, the technology which will use a camera and two rotational mirrors will enable the users palm to work as display or keyboard. The movement of a three-dimensional object can be detected by the system in every two milliseconds, according to Masatoshi Ishikawa. The users can walk with the phone image in palm, without the display ever shifting with the high-speed vision allowing the program to track moving objects. One can actually feel the sensation when a key on display is pressed. The sensation is that of a 3-gram (0.1- ounce) object. Ishikawa has been quoting as saying "You won't need a keyboard, you won't need to carry a smartphone, or a computer. You can make a call without anything". Before this, Ishikawa has created a robot hand using high-speed vision technology. This can beat any human moving 33 times faster. Source:Internet

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