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Smartwatch Turns Your Wrist into Joystick

Posted November 12, 2016 12:00 AM by Engineering360 eNewsletter

Dartmouth College researchers have designed a smartwatch that uses single-hand gestures, allowing your wrist to function as a joystick. Called WristWhirl, it allows the user to interact with the device using only the wrist that wears the smartwatch.

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Re: Smartwatch Turns Your Wrist into Joystick

11/13/2016 8:20 PM

The say "This functionality frees up the hand not wearing the watch to perform other tasks at the same time."

I'm not so sure, it's hard to do one thing with one hand and something else with the other.

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