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Microsoft Wants You to Control Your Phone by Touching Yourself

Posted March 01, 2011 10:11 AM

From Fast Company:

Keyboards and mice are so '99. The interface of the future will be your own body.Kinect's "using your body as a controller" feature was one of technology's big hits last year--not only have users had fun dancing up a storm and racing cars with official Kinect games, but a whole community has emerged to dream up new and inventive ways of hacking the system that tracks 20 joints in your body.But if you think that's Microsoft's last foray into unconventional means of controlling digital devices, think again.

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Re: Microsoft Wants You to Control Your Phone by Touching Yourself

03/02/2011 11:28 AM

And your cell phone will automatically dial 1-900-GET-SE . . . . when you touch . . .

Oh, never mind.

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