Grip-Based Phone Interface Lets You Squeeze to Tap

If you ’ve ever tried to use your smartphone while stand in a cramp subway car , or while carrying a pocketbook of groceries , you shortly realize the limitations of a touchscreen UI . You need two hands destitute , especially in the age of the jumbophone . So as an alternative means to interact with your gadget — not a transposition — NTT Docomo in Japan has developed a handset thatdetects and respond to squeezes .

Understandably call off the Grip UI , the prototype palisade the phone in pressure sensors that act like a series of buttons . So squeezing the French telephone in specific region would be translated as different functions . For model , putting more pressure on the left over side of the equipment would jump back a varlet on a internet site . There ’s also the possibility for complex gesture since the image seems to be able to measure pressure on all side at once .

It ’s skillful news show for usableness , but unsound tidings for your one creepy-crawly friend who ’s already too attached to their phone as it is .