<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/30e20b4e-d68e-4d47-a098-7e2a140ec268/DA4DB620-FA76-40FD-9F01-B9EBD6155758/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/10/22/microsoft-debuts-touchless-touchscreen/" href="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/10/22/microsoft-debuts-touchless-touchscreen/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.geeksaresexy.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/10/22/microsoft-debuts-touchless-touchscreen/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.geeksaresexy.net/img/D9CC2058-ABF6-4FCB-9E0E-B3079A35EF96" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/10/22/microsoft-debuts-touchless-touchscreen/">It’s called <A href="http://www.gearlog.com/2008/10/microsofts_sidesight_something.php">SideSight</A>, and it uses infrared reflection to detect finger movement in the proximity of the device — up to 10 centimeters away.  This makes a “touch” interface, where different finger gestures can have different meanings, workable for devices that are two small to have any significant gesture space on a screen.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/10/22/microsoft-debuts-touchless-touchscreen/"><P>Microsoft has already built a prototype using a mobile phone that only has sensors along two edges, although a future production model could have sensors all around its periphery — or perhaps even over its entire surface.  So far researchers have been ”pleasantly surprised” by the ability of the device to accurately distinguish the infrared signals from ambient light.  The only problem they noted was that where one finger goes, four more follow — so rather than being misled by any old finger that shows up on the radar (or more accurately, <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIDAR">lidar</A>), they elected to follow the dictates of only a single finger.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DA4DB620-FA76-40FD-9F01-B9EBD6155758/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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