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Wristwatch Control of Computer

Monday, 15 October 2001

From The New Scientist: - A new high-tech watchstrap that gives its wearer remote control over a wearable computer has been demonstrated in Switzerland...

The GestureWrist, developed by Jun Rekimoto of Sony's Computer Science Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan, uses sensors embedded into a normal watch strap. These track a wearer's arm movements and the opening and closing their hand, relaying this information to a computer kept somewhere on their person.

The result is that, instead of relying on a computer mouse, the wearer can move a pointer around a computer screen and click on icons using only arm and hand movements."

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