QuoteOriginally posted by: outrunQuoteOriginally posted by: DevonFangsQuoteOriginally posted by: outrunQuoteOriginally posted by: DevonFangsBendy phonemeh?meh.A pressure sensitive border around the phone would be a better input-enhancing improvementThere is also that actually.Te problem is that the force vectors of all your contact point need to sum to zero (and thus reducing a degree of freedom). If you press on one side of your phone, you'll also press on the opposite side, *or* otherwise you'll lose control of your phone.Actually, it must sum to the weight of the phone (g*m_phone) unless one is in freefall. And it can sum to to something different than g*m_phone if one is accelerating the phone toward the ground when the OS interprets some incidental touch on the side of the phone as the gesture to wipe the webform that one just spent 10 minutes typing into.QuoteOriginally posted by: outrunHow about an interface where the front camera is watching my eye's to see what I'm watching on the phone?Now that would be an advertiser's dream! And it would lead to a true pay-for-eyeballs model.

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