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Researchers Unveil Flexible Smartphone Bend Gesture Interface

We are completely incorporated into our smartphones and touchscreens these days. We’re so used to them that it doesn’t matter where we go or what we do, there is always a touchscreen close to us. With curved smartwatches and flexible smartphones, the user interface could be switched yet again. What we’re looking at then is a new way to interact with our smartphones. Researchers in Canada unveiled just how a flexible smartphone bend gesture interface might work.

I keep asking myself if there really is a better optimized user interface than the touchscreen. I mean, there are always going to be refinements that help improve optimization and usability, but when it comes to bend gestures and what they’ll do to our smartphones, I just don’t know what to think. Incorporating another level of user interaction with future smartphones is probably a good thing, but adding a bend gesture interface seems a little unoptimized if you ask me.

But then again, I have no idea what features a bend gesture interface would activate. Watching this demo video of what these researchers at Queen’s University in Canada managed to create certainly gave me a little bit more to think about. Imagine having a flexible touchscreen with bend gesture features that would enable you to further create features that mimic the more logical approach of turning a page, flipping through pictures or even calling someone.

This little video shows just how this interface might work on future smartphones, and what they might trigger. With a little innovation and refining, we could be looking at truly amazingly thin yet powerful smartphones that with a simple bend on a corner, would power up. It’s certainly a more optimized way to flip through pictures and videos than having to swipe the entire screen for each picture and so forth.

So when will this bend gesture interface be incorporated into new smartphones? Well, so far the technology is just in the development stage, but I am sure as soon as we start seeing smartphones and smartwatches sporting flexible screens, these features will be incorporated.

Future Flexible Smartphone Bend Gesture Interface

Richard Darell

Richard Darell is the founder and CEO of Bit Rebels, a multifaceted online news outlet that reports daily on the latest developments in technology, social media, design and everything geek. Today this media entity welcomes more than 3.5 million unique visitors per month and is considered the go-to place for people in constant motion. As an Internet entrepreneur, he is dedicated to constantly trying to develop new ways to bring content faster and closer to the end user in a more streamlined way. His excitement for statistics has allowed him to further develop systems that continuously produce accurate and fast-paced analytics to better optimize the approach by which Bit Rebels presents news and content. His graphic design background has proven to be an important tool when designing new systems and features for Bit Rebels since the development of solid and stable code depends entirely on their structure and implemented procedures. Richard currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden and directs the Bit Rebels offices in both Stockholm and Atlanta. You can reach Richard at richard@bitrebels.com

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